While gender has been shown to be the key feature for statistical pronoun resolution (Ge et al., 1998;Bergsma and Lin, 2006), it remains to be seen whether the exceptional accuracy obtained here will translate into improvements in resolution performance.
a method of back-off to help classify unseen nouns: For multi-token nouns (like Bob Johnson), we also include the four gender counts aggregated over all nouns sharing the first token (Bob .