Are rule-based approaches a thing of the past? The case of anaphora resolution.

Ruslan Mitkov

https://wp.lancs.ac.uk/mitkov/

Abstract: In this talk I shall present the results of a study which evaluates and compares new variants of a popular rule-based anaphora resolution algorithm (Mitkov 1998, 2002) with the original version. We seek to establish whether configurations that benefit from Deep Learning, LLMs and eye-tracking data (always) outperform the original...