@inproceedings{vo-etal-2020-identifying,
    title = "Identifying Motion Entities in Natural Language and A Case Study for Named Entity Recognition",
    author = "Vo, Ngoc Phuoc An  and
      Manotas, Irene  and
      Sheinin, Vadim  and
      Popescu, Octavian",
    editor = "Scott, Donia  and
      Bel, Nuria  and
      Zong, Chengqing",
    booktitle = "Proceedings of the 28th International Conference on Computational Linguistics",
    month = dec,
    year = "2020",
    address = "Barcelona, Spain (Online)",
    publisher = "International Committee on Computational Linguistics",
    url = "https://preview.aclanthology.org/Author-page-Marten-During-lu/2020.coling-main.460/",
    doi = "10.18653/v1/2020.coling-main.460",
    pages = "5250--5258",
    abstract = "Motion recognition is one of the basic cognitive capabilities of many life forms, however, detecting and understanding motion in text is not a trivial task. In addition, identifying motion entities in natural language is not only challenging but also beneficial for a better natural language understanding. In this paper, we present a Motion Entity Tagging (MET) model to identify entities in motion in a text using the Literal-Motion-in-Text (LiMiT) dataset for training and evaluating the model. Then we propose a new method to split clauses and phrases from complex and long motion sentences to improve the performance of our MET model. We also present results showing that motion features, in particular, entity in motion benefits the Named-Entity Recognition (NER) task. Finally, we present an analysis for the special co-occurrence relation between the person category in NER and animate entities in motion, which significantly improves the classification performance for the person category in NER."
}