4 research outputs found
Doc2EDAG: An End-to-End Document-level Framework for Chinese Financial Event Extraction
Most existing event extraction (EE) methods merely extract event arguments
within the sentence scope. However, such sentence-level EE methods struggle to
handle soaring amounts of documents from emerging applications, such as
finance, legislation, health, etc., where event arguments always scatter across
different sentences, and even multiple such event mentions frequently co-exist
in the same document. To address these challenges, we propose a novel
end-to-end model, Doc2EDAG, which can generate an entity-based directed acyclic
graph to fulfill the document-level EE (DEE) effectively. Moreover, we
reformalize a DEE task with the no-trigger-words design to ease the
document-level event labeling. To demonstrate the effectiveness of Doc2EDAG, we
build a large-scale real-world dataset consisting of Chinese financial
announcements with the challenges mentioned above. Extensive experiments with
comprehensive analyses illustrate the superiority of Doc2EDAG over
state-of-the-art methods. Data and codes can be found at
https://github.com/dolphin-zs/Doc2EDAG.Comment: Accepted by EMNLP 201
Exploiting the Matching Information in the Support Set for Few Shot Event Classification
The existing event classification (EC) work primarily focuseson the
traditional supervised learning setting in which models are unableto extract
event mentions of new/unseen event types. Few-shot learninghas not been
investigated in this area although it enables EC models toextend their
operation to unobserved event types. To fill in this gap, inthis work, we
investigate event classification under the few-shot learningsetting. We propose
a novel training method for this problem that exten-sively exploit the support
set during the training process of a few-shotlearning model. In particular, in
addition to matching the query exam-ple with those in the support set for
training, we seek to further matchthe examples within the support set
themselves. This method providesmore training signals for the models and can be
applied to every metric-learning-based few-shot learning methods. Our extensive
experiments ontwo benchmark EC datasets show that the proposed method can
improvethe best reported few-shot learning models by up to 10% on accuracyfor
event classificationComment: Pacific-Asia Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining
(PAKDD) 202
Constructing Information Networks Using One Single Model
In this paper, we propose a new framework that unifies the output of three information extraction (IE) tasks - entity mentions, relations and events as an information network representation, and extracts all of them using one single joint model based on structured prediction. This novel formulation allows different parts of the information network fully interact with each other. For example, many relations can now be considered as the resultant states of events. Our approach achieves substantial improvements over traditional pipelined approaches, and significantly advances state-of-the-art end-toend event argument extraction. ? 2014 Association for Computational Linguistics.EI