EventGraph at CASE 2021 Task 1: A General Graph-based Approach to Protest Event Extraction

Huiling You, David Samuel, Samia Touileb, Lilja Øvrelid


Abstract
This paper presents our submission to the 2022 edition of the CASE 2021 shared task 1, subtask 4. The EventGraph system adapts an end-to-end, graph-based semantic parser to the task of Protest Event Extraction and more specifically subtask 4 on event trigger and argument extraction. We experiment with various graphs, encoding the events as either “labeled-edge” or “node-centric” graphs. We show that the “node-centric” approach yields best results overall, performing well across the three languages of the task, namely English, Spanish, and Portuguese. EventGraph is ranked 3rd for English and Portuguese, and 4th for Spanish.
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2022.case-1.22
Volume:
Proceedings of the 5th Workshop on Challenges and Applications of Automated Extraction of Socio-political Events from Text (CASE)
Month:
December
Year:
2022
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Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates (Hybrid)
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Ali Hürriyetoğlu, Hristo Tanev, Vanni Zavarella, Erdem Yörük
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CASE
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Association for Computational Linguistics
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155–160
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https://aclanthology.org/2022.case-1.22
DOI:
10.18653/v1/2022.case-1.22
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Huiling You, David Samuel, Samia Touileb, and Lilja Øvrelid. 2022. EventGraph at CASE 2021 Task 1: A General Graph-based Approach to Protest Event Extraction. In Proceedings of the 5th Workshop on Challenges and Applications of Automated Extraction of Socio-political Events from Text (CASE), pages 155–160, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates (Hybrid). Association for Computational Linguistics.
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EventGraph at CASE 2021 Task 1: A General Graph-based Approach to Protest Event Extraction (You et al., CASE 2022)
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