Cascaded lexicalised classifiers for second-person reference resolution

This paper examines the resolution of the second person English pronoun you in multi-party dialogue. Following previous work, we attempt to classify instances as generic or referential, and in the latter case identify the singular or plural addressee. We show that accuracy and robustness can be improved by use of simple lexical features, capturing the intuition that different uses and addressees are associated with different vocabularies; and we show that there is an advantage to treating referentiality and addressee identification as separate (but connected) problems

Cascaded Lexicalised Classifiers for Second-Person Reference Resolution

This paper examines the resolution of the second person English pronoun you in multi-party dialogue. Following previous work, we attempt to classify instances as generic or referential, and in the latter case identify the singular or plural addressee. We show that accuracy and robustness can be improved by use of simple lexical features, capturing the intuition that different uses and addressees are associated with different vocabularies; and we show that there is an advantage to treating referentiality and addressee identification as separate (but connected) problems.