Using document level cross-event inference to improve event extraction

Shasha Liao, Ralph Grishman

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Abstract

Event extraction is a particularly challenging type of information extraction (IE). Most current event extraction systems rely on local information at the phrase or sentence level. However, this local context may be insufficient to resolve ambiguities in identifying particular types of events; information from a wider scope can serve to resolve some of these ambiguities. In this paper, we use document level information to improve the performance of ACE event extraction. In contrast to previous work, we do not limit ourselves to information about events of the same type, but rather use information about other types of events to make predictions or resolve ambiguities regarding a given event. We learn such relationships from the training corpus and use them to help predict the occurrence of events and event arguments in a text. Experiments show that we can get 9.0% (absolute) gain in trigger (event) classification, and more than 8% gain for argument (role) classification in ACE event extraction.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Title of host publicationACL 2010 - 48th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Conference Proceedings
EditorsJan Hajic, Sandra Carberry, Stephen Clark
PublisherAssociation for Computational Linguistics (ACL)
Pages789-797
Number of pages9
ISBN (Electronic)1932432663, 9781932432664
StatePublished - 2010
Event48th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, ACL 2010 - Uppsala, Sweden
Duration: Jul 11 2010Jul 16 2010

Publication series

NameProceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics
Volume2010-July
ISSN (Print)0736-587X

Other

Other48th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, ACL 2010
Country/TerritorySweden
CityUppsala
Period7/11/107/16/10

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Computer Science Applications
  • Linguistics and Language
  • Language and Linguistics

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