Identification of event mentions and their semantic class

Steven Bethard; James H. Martin

doi:10.3115/1610075.1610098

Identification of event mentions and their semantic class

Steven Bethard, James H. Martin

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Abstract

Complex tasks like question answering need to be able to identify events in text and the relations among those events. We show that this event identification task and a related task, identifying the semantic class of these events, can both be formulated as classification problems in a word-chunking paradigm. We introduce a variety of linguistically motivated features for this task and then train a system that is able to identify events with a precision of 82% and a recall of 71%. We then show a variety of analyses of this model, and their implications for the event identification task.

Original language	English (US)
Title of host publication	COLING/ACL 2006 - EMNLP 2006
Subtitle of host publication	2006 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, Proceedings of the Conference
Publisher	Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)
Pages	146-154
Number of pages	9
ISBN (Print)	1932432736, 9781932432732
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.3115/1610075.1610098
State	Published - 2006
Externally published	Yes
Event	11th Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Proceessing, EMNLP 2006, Held in Conjunction with COLING/ACL 2006 - Sydney, NSW, Australia Duration: Jul 22 2006 → Jul 23 2006

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Name	COLING/ACL 2006 - EMNLP 2006: 2006 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, Proceedings of the Conference

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Conference	11th Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Proceessing, EMNLP 2006, Held in Conjunction with COLING/ACL 2006
Country/Territory	Australia
City	Sydney, NSW
Period	7/22/06 → 7/23/06

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Computational Theory and Mathematics
Computer Science Applications
Information Systems

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Bethard, S., & Martin, J. H. (2006). Identification of event mentions and their semantic class. In COLING/ACL 2006 - EMNLP 2006: 2006 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, Proceedings of the Conference (pp. 146-154). (COLING/ACL 2006 - EMNLP 2006: 2006 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, Proceedings of the Conference). Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL). https://doi.org/10.3115/1610075.1610098

Identification of event mentions and their semantic class. / Bethard, Steven; Martin, James H.
COLING/ACL 2006 - EMNLP 2006: 2006 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, Proceedings of the Conference. Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), 2006. p. 146-154 (COLING/ACL 2006 - EMNLP 2006: 2006 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, Proceedings of the Conference).

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution

Bethard, S & Martin, JH 2006, Identification of event mentions and their semantic class. in COLING/ACL 2006 - EMNLP 2006: 2006 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, Proceedings of the Conference. COLING/ACL 2006 - EMNLP 2006: 2006 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, Proceedings of the Conference, Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), pp. 146-154, 11th Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Proceessing, EMNLP 2006, Held in Conjunction with COLING/ACL 2006, Sydney, NSW, Australia, 7/22/06. https://doi.org/10.3115/1610075.1610098

Bethard S, Martin JH. Identification of event mentions and their semantic class. In COLING/ACL 2006 - EMNLP 2006: 2006 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, Proceedings of the Conference. Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL). 2006. p. 146-154. (COLING/ACL 2006 - EMNLP 2006: 2006 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, Proceedings of the Conference). doi: 10.3115/1610075.1610098

Bethard, Steven ; Martin, James H. / Identification of event mentions and their semantic class. COLING/ACL 2006 - EMNLP 2006: 2006 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, Proceedings of the Conference. Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), 2006. pp. 146-154 (COLING/ACL 2006 - EMNLP 2006: 2006 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, Proceedings of the Conference).

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