Linear Cross-document Event Coreference Resolution with X-AMR
Shafiuddin Rehan Ahmed George Arthur Baker Evi Judge Michael Regan Kristin Wright-Bettner Martha Palmer James H. Martin
Event Coreference Resolution (ECR) as a pairwise mention classification task
is expensive both for automated systems and manual annotations. The task's
quadratic difficulty is exacerbated when using Large Language Models (LLMs),
making prompt engineering for ECR prohibitively costly. In this work, we
propose a graphical representation of events, X-AMR, anchored around individual
mentions using a \textbf{cross}-document version of \textbf{A}bstract
\textbf{M}eaning \textbf{R}epresentation. We then linearize the ECR with a
novel multi-hop coreference algorithm over the event graphs. The event graphs
simplify ECR, making it a) LLM cost-effective, b) compositional and
interpretable, and c) easily annotated. For a fair assessment, we first enrich
an existing ECR benchmark dataset with these event graphs using an
annotator-friendly tool we introduce. Then, we employ GPT-4, the newest LLM by
OpenAI, for these annotations. Finally, using the ECR algorithm, we assess
GPT-4 against humans and analyze its limitations. Through this research, we aim
to advance the state-of-the-art for efficient ECR and shed light on the
potential shortcomings of current LLMs at this task. Code and annotations:
\url{https://github.com/ahmeshaf/gpt_coref}