Aligning Script Events with Narrative Texts

Simon Ostermann, Michael Roth, Stefan Thater, Manfred Pinkal


Abstract
Script knowledge plays a central role in text understanding and is relevant for a variety of downstream tasks. In this paper, we consider two recent datasets which provide a rich and general representation of script events in terms of paraphrase sets. We introduce the task of mapping event mentions in narrative texts to such script event types, and present a model for this task that exploits rich linguistic representations as well as information on temporal ordering. The results of our experiments demonstrate that this complex task is indeed feasible.
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S17-1016
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S17-1016v1
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Proceedings of the 6th Joint Conference on Lexical and Computational Semantics (*SEM 2017)
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August
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2017
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Vancouver, Canada
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Nancy Ide, Aurélie Herbelot, Lluís Màrquez
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*SEM
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SIGLEX | SIGSEM
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Association for Computational Linguistics
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128–134
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10.18653/v1/S17-1016
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Simon Ostermann, Michael Roth, Stefan Thater, and Manfred Pinkal. 2017. Aligning Script Events with Narrative Texts. In Proceedings of the 6th Joint Conference on Lexical and Computational Semantics (*SEM 2017), pages 128–134, Vancouver, Canada. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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