Coreference Resolution

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Coreference resolution finds mentions such as names, pronouns, and descriptions, then determines which refer to the same person, object, or event across a text or conversation. Systems use span detection and clustering, mention-ranking models, lexical matching, contextual embeddings, and increasingly large language models; extensions connect references across documents or align text with images and dialogue objects. Evaluation uses resources such as OntoNotes, PreCo, and ECB+ alongside multilingual and morphologically rich language benchmarks, often reporting CoNLL F1. A central challenge is that scores can conceal sensitivity to mention boundaries, annotation choices, and small context changes, so robust generalization remains unsettled.

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  1. Quality over Quantity: Rethinking Data and Model Assumptions for Bengali Coreference Resolution

    Oct 26, 2026Zenith Biswas, Andrew Thomas DyerCoreference ResolutionLow-Resource Language Processing

    Data Science and Artificial Intelligence, Saarland University, Saarbrücken, Germany · Language Science and Technology, Saarland University, Saarbrücken, Germany

  2. Can LLMs in Draft-Verify-Revise Pipelines Resolve Deictic Ambiguity?

    Sep 10, 2026Obinna I. EkekezieCoreference ResolutionLLM Answer Verification

    Cambridge Health Alliance, Cambridge, MA, United States of America. · Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, United States of America.

  3. A Circuit for Plural Reference: How LLMs Represent and Retrieve Singular and Plural Entities

    Sep 3, 2026Anh Danh, Rick Nouwen, Massimo PoesioCoreference ResolutionLLM Interpretability

    Utrecht University · Queen Mary University of London

  4. DiscoSign: Discourse-Aware Text to Sign Language Gloss Translation

    Sep 2, 2026Vasileios Baltatzis, Mert Inan, Connor Gillis +4Document-Level MTCoreference Resolution

    Apple · Northeastern University

  5. Intensional Anaphora

    Aug 12, 2026Ezra Keshet, Steven AbneyCoreference Resolution

    University of Michigan

  6. Hierarchical Compositionality for An Assistive AI Agent

    Aug 11, 2026Tianyi Fu, Mohan SridharanCognitive Architectures for AI AgentsCoreference Resolution

    University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom

  7. Human-Like Anaphor Resolution in Large Language Models

    Aug 6, 2026Keane Zhang, Varshini Chinta, Raj Sanjay Shah +1Coreference ResolutionLLM Evaluation

    Georgia Institute of Technology

  8. Aethel: A Reproducible Graph-Retrieval Framework for Multi-Hop Financial Diligence

    Jul 20, 2026Krish SapruCoreference ResolutionGraph-Based Retrieval

  9. Introducing corpora Hlava Cor and Hlava AD: Human Label Variation in Coreference and Discourse Relations

    Jun 24, 2026Anna Nedoluzhko, Šárka Zikánová, Jiří Mírovský +2Inter-Rater ReliabilityCoreference Resolution

    Charles University, Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, Institute of Formal and Applied Linguistics, Prague, Czech Republic

  10. Prague Dependency Treebank -- Consolidated 2.0: Enriching a Complex Annotation Scheme

    Jun 23, 2026Marie Mikulová, Jiří Mírovský, Milan Straka +4Coreference ResolutionCorpus Linguistics

    Charles University, Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, Institute of Formal and Applied Linguistics Malostranské náměstí 25, 118 00 Prague 1, Czech Republic

  11. Plug-and-Adapt: Multimodal Coreference Resolution at First Sight with a Pretrained Alignment Model

    Jun 16, 2026Jinghan Wu, Jing Li, Ivor W. Tsang +1Coreference ResolutionVLM Adaptation

    State Key Laboratory of Human-Machine Hybrid Augmented Intelligence, the Institute of Artificial Intelligence and Robotics, Xi’an Jiaotong University, Xi’an 710049, China · Centre for Frontier AI Research and the Institute of High-Performance Computing, Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR), Singapore 138634

  12. What's the Point? Spatial Grammar & Index Resolution for Sign Language Processing

    Jun 6, 2026Oline Ranum, Simon Hadfield, Richard BowdenCoreference ResolutionSign Language Recognition

    Centre for Vision, Speech and Signal Processing, University of Surrey, Guildford, UK

  13. Multilingual Coreference Resolution via Cycle-Consistent Machine Translation

    Jun 3, 2026Adriana-Valentina Costache, Eduard Poesina, Silviu-Florin Gheorghe +2Coreference ResolutionData Augmentation

    Department of Computer Science, University of Bucharest, Romania

  14. CorPipe at CRAC 2026: Empty Nodes and Cross-Lingual Transfer in Multilingual Coreference Resolution

    May 28, 2026Milan StrakaCoreference ResolutionCross-Lingual Transfer

    Charles University, Faculty of Mathematics and Physics Institute of Formal and Applied Linguistics Malostranské nám. 25, Prague, Czech Republic

  15. Findings of the Fifth Shared Task on Multilingual Coreference Resolution: Expanding Datasets for Long-Range Entities

    May 20, 2026Michal Novák, Miloslav Konopík, Anna Nedoluzhko +6Coreference Resolution

    Charles University, Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, Institute of Formal and Applied Linguistics, Prague, Czechia · University of West Bohemia, Faculty of Applied Sciences, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Pilsen, Czechia

  16. Closing the Gap at CRAC 2026: Two-Stage Adaptation for LLM-Based Multilingual Coreference Resolution

    May 16, 2026Antoine Bourgois, Olga Seminck, Thierry PoibeauMultilingual Language ModelsCoreference Resolution

    Lattice (CNRS UMR 8094 & ENS-PSL & Universit´e Sorbonne Nouvelle), Montrouge, France

  17. Interpretable Coreference Resolution Evaluation Using Explicit Semantics

    May 11, 2026Bruno Gatti, Giuliano Martinelli, Roberto NavigliCoreference Resolution

    Sapienza NLP Group, Sapienza University of Rome · 2Babelscape

  18. Reasoning over Object Descriptions Improves Coreference Resolution in Task-Based Dialogue Systems

    Apr 30, 2026Oier Ijurco, Oier Lopez de LacalleCoreference ResolutionConversational Agents

    HiTZ Center - Ixa, University of the Basque Country UPV/EHU

  19. Beyond Word Boundaries: A Hebrew Coreference Benchmark and an Evaluation Protocol for Morphologically Complex Text

    Apr 18, 2026Refael Shaked Greenfeld, Reut TsarfatyCoreference ResolutionLLM Evaluation

    Bar-Ilan University

  20. Cross-Modal Coreference Alignment: Enabling Reliable Information Transfer in Omni-LLMs

    Apr 7, 2026Hongcheng Liu, Yuhao Wang, Zhe Chen +5Cross-Modal AlignmentMultimodal Large Language Models

    Shanghai Jiao Tong University

  21. Do Lexical and Contextual Coreference Resolution Systems Degrade Differently under Mention Noise? An Empirical Study on Scientific Software Mentions

    Apr 2, 2026Atilla Kaan Alkan, Felix Grezes, Jennifer Lynn Bartlett +3Coreference Resolution

    Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, MA, USA

  22. Semantic Centroids and Hierarchical Density-Based Clustering for Cross-Document Software Coreference Resolution

    Mar 25, 2026Julia Matela, Frank KrügerCoreference Resolution

    Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Wismar University of Applied Sciences Wismar, Germany

  23. Piecing Together Cross-Document Coreference Resolution Datasets: Systematic Dataset Analysis and Unification

    Feb 28, 2026Anastasia Zhukova, Terry Ruas, Jan Philip Wahle +1Coreference ResolutionCross-Dataset Generalization

    University of Göttingen Göttingen, Germany

  24. Diverse Word Choices, Same Reference: Annotating Lexically-Rich Cross-Document Coreference

    Feb 19, 2026Anastasia Zhukova, Felix Hamborg, Karsten Donnay +2Coreference Resolution

    University of Göttingen Göttingen, Germany · Humboldt University Berlin, Germany · University of Zurich Zurich, Switzerland

  25. The Validity of Coreference-based Evaluations of Natural Language Understanding

    Feb 18, 2026Ian PoradaLanguage Model GeneralizationCoreference Resolution

    School of Computer Science, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec