coreference-includes-bridging

Summary

Figuring out what different phrases refer to in a text is broader than just tracking pronouns like "it" or "she"; it also requires recognizing when a noun phrase points to something only implied, such as "the front door" in a sentence about a house. This means the system needs to handle contextual and world-knowledge links, not just simple word-to-word matching, or it will miss a large class of references that a reader would naturally resolve.