@inproceedings{vossen-2018-newsreader,
    title = "{N}ews{R}eader at {S}em{E}val-2018 Task 5: Counting events by reasoning over event-centric-knowledge-graphs",
    author = "Vossen, Piek",
    editor = "Apidianaki, Marianna  and
      Mohammad, Saif M.  and
      May, Jonathan  and
      Shutova, Ekaterina  and
      Bethard, Steven  and
      Carpuat, Marine",
    booktitle = "Proceedings of the 12th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation",
    month = jun,
    year = "2018",
    address = "New Orleans, Louisiana",
    publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
    url = "https://preview.aclanthology.org/ingest_wac_2008/S18-1108/",
    doi = "10.18653/v1/S18-1108",
    pages = "660--666",
    abstract = "In this paper, we describe the participation of the NewsReader system in the SemEval-2018 Task 5 on Counting Events and Participants in the Long Tail. NewsReader is a generic unsupervised text processing system that detects events with participants, time and place to generate Event Centric Knowledge Graphs (ECKGs). We minimally adapted these ECKGs to establish a baseline performance for the task. We first use the ECKGs to establish which documents report on the same incident and what event mentions are coreferential. Next, we aggregate ECKGs across coreferential mentions and use the aggregated knowledge to answer the questions of the task. Our participation tests the quality of NewsReader to create ECKGs, as well as the potential of ECKGs to establish event identity and reason over the result to answer the task queries."
}