Cross-document Event Identity via Dense Annotation
Adithya Pratapa, Zhengzhong Liu, Kimihiro Hasegawa, Linwei Li, Yukari Yamakawa, Shikun Zhang, Teruko Mitamura
Abstract
In this paper, we study the identity of textual events from different documents. While the complex nature of event identity is previously studied (Hovy et al., 2013), the case of events across documents is unclear. Prior work on cross-document event coreference has two main drawbacks. First, they restrict the annotations to a limited set of event types. Second, they insufficiently tackle the concept of event identity. Such annotation setup reduces the pool of event mentions and prevents one from considering the possibility of quasi-identity relations. We propose a dense annotation approach for cross-document event coreference, comprising a rich source of event mentions and a dense annotation effort between related document pairs. To this end, we design a new annotation workflow with careful quality control and an easy-to-use annotation interface. In addition to the links, we further collect overlapping event contexts, including time, location, and participants, to shed some light on the relation between identity decisions and context. We present an open-access dataset for cross-document event coreference, CDEC-WN, collected from English Wikinews and open-source our annotation toolkit to encourage further research on cross-document tasks.- Anthology ID:
- 2021.conll-1.39
- Volume:
- Proceedings of the 25th Conference on Computational Natural Language Learning
- Month:
- November
- Year:
- 2021
- Address:
- Online
- Editors:
- Arianna Bisazza, Omri Abend
- Venue:
- CoNLL
- SIG:
- SIGNLL
- Publisher:
- Association for Computational Linguistics
- Note:
- Pages:
- 496–517
- Language:
- URL:
- https://aclanthology.org/2021.conll-1.39
- DOI:
- 10.18653/v1/2021.conll-1.39
- Cite (ACL):
- Adithya Pratapa, Zhengzhong Liu, Kimihiro Hasegawa, Linwei Li, Yukari Yamakawa, Shikun Zhang, and Teruko Mitamura. 2021. Cross-document Event Identity via Dense Annotation. In Proceedings of the 25th Conference on Computational Natural Language Learning, pages 496–517, Online. Association for Computational Linguistics.
- Cite (Informal):
- Cross-document Event Identity via Dense Annotation (Pratapa et al., CoNLL 2021)
- PDF:
- https://preview.aclanthology.org/dois-2013-emnlp/2021.conll-1.39.pdf
- Code
- adithya7/cdec-wikinews
- Data
- ECB+