Identity and granularity of events in text

Piek Vossen; Agata Cybulska

doi:10.1007/978-3-319-75487-1_39

Identity and granularity of events in text

Piek Vossen^*, Agata Cybulska

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In this paper we describe a method to detect event descriptions in different news articles and to model the semantics of events and their components using RDF representations. We compare these descriptions to solve a cross-document event coreference task. Our component approach to event semantics defines identity and granularity of events at different levels. It performs close to state-of-the-art approaches on the cross-document event coreference task, while outperforming other works when assuming similar quality of event detection. We demonstrate how granularity and identity are interconnected and we discuss how semantic anomaly could be used to define differences between coreference, subevent and topical relations.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Computational Linguistics and Intelligent Text Processing
Subtitle of host publication	17th International Conference, CICLing 2016, Konya, Turkey, April 3–9, 2016, Revised Selected Papers, Part II
Editors	Alexander Gelbukh
Publisher	Springer/Verlag
Pages	501-522
Number of pages	22
Volume	2
ISBN (Electronic)	9783319754871
ISBN (Print)	9783319754864
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-75487-1_39
Publication status	Published - 2018
Event	17th International Conference on Intelligent Text Processing and Computational Linguistics, CICLing 2016 - Konya, Turkey Duration: 3 Apr 2016 → 9 Apr 2016

Publication series

Name	Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Volume	9624 LNCS
ISSN (Print)	0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)	1611-3349

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Conference	17th International Conference on Intelligent Text Processing and Computational Linguistics, CICLing 2016
Country/Territory	Turkey
City	Konya
Period	3/04/16 → 9/04/16

Funding

Acknowledgments. The NewsReader project was co-funded by the European Union as project number: 316404, FP7 Work Programme Call FP7-ICT-2011-8 Objective Cooperation Research theme “Information and Communication Technologies”, challenge 4.4 - Area Intelligent Information Management.

Funders	Funder number
Seventh Framework Programme	316404
Seventh Framework Programme	FP7-ICT-2011-8

Keywords

Event coreference
Event identity
Event relations

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Vossen, P., & Cybulska, A. (2018). Identity and granularity of events in text. In A. Gelbukh (Ed.), Computational Linguistics and Intelligent Text Processing: 17th International Conference, CICLing 2016, Konya, Turkey, April 3–9, 2016, Revised Selected Papers, Part II (Vol. 2, pp. 501-522). (Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics); Vol. 9624 LNCS). Springer/Verlag. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-75487-1_39

Vossen, Piek ; Cybulska, Agata. / Identity and granularity of events in text. Computational Linguistics and Intelligent Text Processing: 17th International Conference, CICLing 2016, Konya, Turkey, April 3–9, 2016, Revised Selected Papers, Part II. editor / Alexander Gelbukh. Vol. 2 Springer/Verlag, 2018. pp. 501-522 (Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)).

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Vossen, P & Cybulska, A 2018, Identity and granularity of events in text. in A Gelbukh (ed.), Computational Linguistics and Intelligent Text Processing: 17th International Conference, CICLing 2016, Konya, Turkey, April 3–9, 2016, Revised Selected Papers, Part II. vol. 2, Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics), vol. 9624 LNCS, Springer/Verlag, pp. 501-522, 17th International Conference on Intelligent Text Processing and Computational Linguistics, CICLing 2016, Konya, Turkey, 3/04/16. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-75487-1_39

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Vossen P, Cybulska A. Identity and granularity of events in text. In Gelbukh A, editor, Computational Linguistics and Intelligent Text Processing: 17th International Conference, CICLing 2016, Konya, Turkey, April 3–9, 2016, Revised Selected Papers, Part II. Vol. 2. Springer/Verlag. 2018. p. 501-522. (Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)). Epub 2018 Mar 21. doi: 10.1007/978-3-319-75487-1_39

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