Recall Error Analysis for Coreference Resolution

Abstract

We present a novel method for coreference resolution error analysis which we apply to perform a recall error analysis of four state-of-the-art English coreference reso-lution systems. Our analysis highlights differences between the systems and iden-tifies that the majority of recall errors for nouns and names are shared by all sys-tems. We characterize this set of com-mon challenging errors in terms of a broad range of lexical and semantic properties. 1