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
>

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