Extending the Entity Grid with Entity-Specific Features

Micha Elsner1 and Eugene Charniak2
1University of Edinburgh, 2Brown University


Abstract

We extend the popular entity grid representation for local coherence modeling. The grid abstracts away information about the entities it models; we add discourse prominence, named entity type and coreference features to distinguish between important and unimportant entities. We improve the best result for WSJ document discrimination by 6%.




Full paper: http://www.aclweb.org/anthology/P/P11/P11-2022.pdf