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Conditional Modality Fusion for Coreference Resolution

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Conditional Modality Fusion for Coreference Resolution
Non-verbal modalities such as gesture can improve processing of spontaneous spoken language. For example, similar hand gestures tend to predict semantic similarity, so features that quantify gestural similarity can improve semantic tasks such as coreference resolution. However, not all hand movements are informative gestures; psychological research has shown that speakers are more likely to gesture meaningfully when their speech is ambiguous. Ideally, one would attend to gesture only in such circumstances, and ignore other hand movements. We present conditional modality fusion, which formalizes this intuition by treating the informativeness of gesture as a hidden variable to be learned jointly with the class label. Applied to coreference resolution, conditional modality fusion significantly outperforms both early and late modality fusion, which are current techniques for modality combination.
Jacob Eisenstein, Randall Davis
Added 29 Oct 2010
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Type Conference
Year 2007
Where ACL
Authors Jacob Eisenstein, Randall Davis
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