Abstract
Determining temporal relations (e.g., before or after) between events has been a challenging natural language understanding task, partly due to the difficulty to generate large amounts of high-quality training data. Consequently, neural approaches have not been widely used on it, or showed only moderate improvements. This paper proposes a new neural system that achieves about 10% absolute improvement in accuracy over the previous best system (25% error reduction) on two benchmark datasets. The proposed system is trained on the state-of-the-art MATRES dataset and applies contextualized word embeddings, a Siamese encoder of a temporal common sense knowledge base, and global inference via integer linear programming (ILP). We suggest that the new approach could serve as a strong baseline for future research in this area.- Anthology ID:
- D19-1642
- Volume:
- Proceedings of the 2019 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing and the 9th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing (EMNLP-IJCNLP)
- Month:
- November
- Year:
- 2019
- Address:
- Hong Kong, China
- Editors:
- Kentaro Inui, Jing Jiang, Vincent Ng, Xiaojun Wan
- Venues:
- EMNLP | IJCNLP
- SIG:
- SIGDAT
- Publisher:
- Association for Computational Linguistics
- Note:
- Pages:
- 6203–6209
- Language:
- URL:
- https://aclanthology.org/D19-1642
- DOI:
- 10.18653/v1/D19-1642
- Cite (ACL):
- Qiang Ning, Sanjay Subramanian, and Dan Roth. 2019. An Improved Neural Baseline for Temporal Relation Extraction. In Proceedings of the 2019 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing and the 9th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing (EMNLP-IJCNLP), pages 6203–6209, Hong Kong, China. Association for Computational Linguistics.
- Cite (Informal):
- An Improved Neural Baseline for Temporal Relation Extraction (Ning et al., EMNLP-IJCNLP 2019)
- PDF:
- https://preview.aclanthology.org/proper-vol2-ingestion/D19-1642.pdf
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