Resolving Personal Names in Email Using Context Expansion

This paper describes a computational approach to resolving the true referent of a named mention of a person in the body of an email. A generative model of mention generation is used to guide mention resolution. Results on three relatively small collections indicate that the accuracy of this approach compares favorably to the best known techniques, and results on the full CMU Enron collection indicate that it scales well to larger collections.

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2008
• Where: ACL
• Authors: Tamer Elsayed, Douglas W. Oard, Galileo Namata
• Keywords: ACL 2008, Computational Approach, Computational Linguistics, Mention Generation, Mention Resolution