Ann O’Brien


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2024

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Spanless Event Annotation for Corpus-Wide Complex Event Understanding
Ann Bies | Jennifer Tracey | Ann O’Brien | Song Chen | Stephanie Strassel
Proceedings of the 2024 Joint International Conference on Computational Linguistics, Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC-COLING 2024)

We present a new approach to event annotation designed to promote whole-corpus understanding of complex events in multilingual, multimedia data as part of the DARPA Knowledge-directed Artificial Intelligence Reasoning Over Schemas (KAIROS) Program. KAIROS aims to build technology capable of reasoning about complex real-world events like a specific terrorist attack in order to provide actionable insights to end users. KAIROS systems extract events from a corpus, aggregate information into a coherent semantic representation, and instantiate observed events or predict unseen but expected events using a relevant event schema selected from a generalized schema library. To support development and testing for KAIROS Phase 2B we created a complex event annotation corpus that, instead of individual event mentions anchored in document spans with pre-defined event type labels, comprises a series of temporally ordered event frames populated with information aggregated from the whole corpus and labeled with an unconstrained tag set based on Wikidata Qnodes. The corpus makes a unique contribution to the resource landscape for information extraction, addressing gaps in the availability of multilingual, multimedia corpora for schema-based event representation. The corpus will be made available through publication in the Linguistic Data Consortium (LDC) catalog.

2014

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Real-Time Detection, Tracking, and Monitoring of Automatically Discovered Events in Social Media
Miles Osborne | Sean Moran | Richard McCreadie | Alexander Von Lunen | Martin Sykora | Elizabeth Cano | Neil Ireson | Craig Macdonald | Iadh Ounis | Yulan He | Tom Jackson | Fabio Ciravegna | Ann O’Brien
Proceedings of 52nd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics: System Demonstrations