Forgot to mention that there is a Word Sense Disambiguation module being developed in OpenNLP for GSOC 20215 which we could use.
On Tue, Sep 8, 2015 at 11:55 AM, Cristian Petroaca < cristian.petro...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi All, > > I was thinking of extending the EntityCoreferenceEngine (which currently > coreferences only if the noun phrase has an additional word which can be > used to further describe the noun) with corefences of simple noun phrases > such as "Microsoft -> the company, MIck Jagger -> The singer" by using Word > Sense Disambiguation to apply a wordnet class to the noun phrase and then > matching that wordnet class to the yago class of the Named Entity, yago > class which also has a mapping to the wordnet class. If the 2 wordnet > classes match then we have a coreference. > The noun phrase would still need to contain "The, This, These" in order to > make sure that the noun phrase does refer to an object in the text. > > What do you think? > > Cristian >