pengyifan-anaphoraresolution
An implementation of the classic Resolution of Anaphora Procedure (RAP)
###JavaRAP
JavaRAP is an implementation of the classic Resolution of Anaphora Procedure (RAP) given by Lappin and Leass (1994) (Accuracy: 57.9%). It resolves third person pronouns, lexical anaphors, and identifies pleonastic pronouns. The original purpose of the implementation is to provide anaphora resolution result to our TREC 2003 Q&A system. Since RAP is so widely known, we shortly came to the idea of making this implementation freely available to the research community, in the hope that it could
- be used as a reference to benchmark other anaphora resolution algorithms or systems; and
- provide anaphora resolution function as needed by other NLP applications.
We name the implementation as JavaRAP because it is developed in Java. Such a decision in programming language makes it more easily portable over hardware platforms, however less straightforwardly when the operating system changes.
Developers
- Yifan Peng (yfpeng@udel.edu)
Acknowledgment
This project is based on JavaRAP, which was developed by Long Qiu. The latest version 1.13 was released on Jan 19, 2011 and has not been updated since then.
###Reference
- Long Qiu, Min-Yen Kan and Tat-Seng Chua. (2004). A Public Reference Implementation of the RAP Anaphora Resolution Algorithm. In proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC 2004). Vol. I, pp. 291-294.