Coreference Resolution

Coreference resolution is a natural-language-processing task that detects when different expressions in a text refer to the same entity — for example a name, a later pronoun, and a descriptive phrase all pointing at one person. Rooted in early linguistic work by Hobbs (1978) and advanced by the end-to-end neural model of Lee et al. (2017), it improves the quality of information extraction and text understanding.