System and method for resolving named entity coreference

摘要

A method and a system for coreference resolution of named entities are provided. The method includes receiving (S106) a set of document clusters, each cluster in the set of document clusters including a set of text documents. Instances of each of a set of candidate named entities are identified (S108) in the document clusters. For a pair of the candidate named entities, at least one socio-temporal feature is computed (S110) that is based on the similarity of the distributions of identified instances of the respective candidate name entities among the document clusters. A decision for merging for the candidate named entities into a common real named entity is based on the socio-temporal features.