@inproceedings{muller-dafnos-2022-sparta,
    title = "{SPARTA} at {CASE} 2021 Task 1: Evaluating Different Techniques to Improve Event Extraction",
    author = {M{\"u}ller, Arthur  and
      Dafnos, Andreas},
    editor = {H{\"u}rriyeto{\u{g}}lu, Ali  and
      Tanev, Hristo  and
      Zavarella, Vanni  and
      Y{\"o}r{\"u}k, Erdem},
    booktitle = "Proceedings of the 5th Workshop on Challenges and Applications of Automated Extraction of Socio-political Events from Text (CASE)",
    month = dec,
    year = "2022",
    address = "Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates (Hybrid)",
    publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
    url = "https://preview.aclanthology.org/fix-sig-urls/2022.case-1.27/",
    doi = "10.18653/v1/2022.case-1.27",
    pages = "189--194",
    abstract = "We participated in the Shared Task 1 at CASE 2021, Subtask 4 on protest event extraction from news articles and examined different techniques aimed at improving the performance of the winning system from the last competition round. We evaluated in-domain pre-training, task-specific pre-fine-tuning, alternative loss function, translation of the English training dataset into other target languages (i.e., Portuguese, Spanish, and Hindi) for the token classification task, and a simple data augmentation technique by random sentence reordering. This paper summarizes the results, showing that random sentence reordering leads to a consistent improvement of the model performance."
}