A Two-Stream AMR-enhanced Model for Document-level Event Argument Extraction
Runxin Xu, Peiyi Wang, Tianyu Liu, Shuang Zeng, Baobao Chang, Zhifang Sui
Abstract
Most previous studies aim at extracting events from a single sentence, while document-level event extraction still remains under-explored. In this paper, we focus on extracting event arguments from an entire document, which mainly faces two critical problems: a) the long-distance dependency between trigger and arguments over sentences; b) the distracting context towards an event in the document. To address these issues, we propose a Two-Stream Abstract meaning Representation enhanced extraction model (TSAR). TSAR encodes the document from different perspectives by a two-stream encoding module, to utilize local and global information and lower the impact of distracting context. Besides, TSAR introduces an AMR-guided interaction module to capture both intra-sentential and inter-sentential features, based on the locally and globally constructed AMR semantic graphs. An auxiliary boundary loss is introduced to enhance the boundary information for text spans explicitly. Extensive experiments illustrate that TSAR outperforms previous state-of-the-art by a large margin, with 2.54 F1 and 5.13 F1 performance gain on the public RAMS and WikiEvents datasets respectively, showing the superiority in the cross-sentence arguments extraction. We release our code in https://github.com/PKUnlp-icler/TSAR.- Anthology ID:
- 2022.naacl-main.370
- Volume:
- Proceedings of the 2022 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies
- Month:
- July
- Year:
- 2022
- Address:
- Seattle, United States
- Editors:
- Marine Carpuat, Marie-Catherine de Marneffe, Ivan Vladimir Meza Ruiz
- Venue:
- NAACL
- SIG:
- Publisher:
- Association for Computational Linguistics
- Note:
- Pages:
- 5025–5036
- Language:
- URL:
- https://aclanthology.org/2022.naacl-main.370
- DOI:
- 10.18653/v1/2022.naacl-main.370
- Cite (ACL):
- Runxin Xu, Peiyi Wang, Tianyu Liu, Shuang Zeng, Baobao Chang, and Zhifang Sui. 2022. A Two-Stream AMR-enhanced Model for Document-level Event Argument Extraction. In Proceedings of the 2022 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies, pages 5025–5036, Seattle, United States. Association for Computational Linguistics.
- Cite (Informal):
- A Two-Stream AMR-enhanced Model for Document-level Event Argument Extraction (Xu et al., NAACL 2022)
- PDF:
- https://preview.aclanthology.org/proper-vol2-ingestion/2022.naacl-main.370.pdf
- Code
- pkunlp-icler/tsar