Causal and Corefer relationship appear at the same time

[tommasoc80]

Causal and Corefer relationship appear at the same time

[tommasoc80]

These are likely annotation errors in the coreference layer from ECB+.

Check: annotated_data/v1.0/3/3_6ecbplus.xml.xml
*** tokens ****
on
Monday
morning
and
then
escaped
from
the
vehicle
and
took
off
on
foot

*** events ****
<ACTION_OCCURRENCE m_id="7" climaxEvent="FALSE" comment="" >
<token_anchor t_id="90"/> [escaped]
<ACTION_OCCURRENCE m_id="8" climaxEvent="FALSE" comment="" >
<token_anchor t_id="95"/> [took]
<token_anchor t_id="96"/> [off]

**** PLOT LINK ****
<PLOT_LINK r_id="234877" >

[escaped] [took off]

**** COREFERENCE - /ECB+_LREC2014/ECB+/3/3_6ecbplus.xml ****

<CROSS_DOC_COREF r_id="22197" note="ACT16190399378875259" >

[escaped] [took off] and are marked as coreferential. However, given their context of occurrence and the likely temporal relations connecting the two, coreference does not seem valid.

Dropping such cases seems the best option.