Meanings
- not comparablegrammarReferring to the same thing.
Syntactic constraints included recognizing structures such as appositive constructions and i-within-i filter, which prevents parent noun phrases in a parse tree from being coreferent with any of children.
2016 March 3, “Bio-SCoRes: A Smorgasbord Architecture for Coreference Resolution in Biomedical Text”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI
plural coreferents
- grammarAny of two or more things jointly referred to.
Synonyms & antonyms
adjectiverelated by sharing a symbolic link to a concrete object or an abstraction
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Origin
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coreferent. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/coreferent
“coreferent.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/coreferent. Accessed November 3, 2026.
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