Sub-event detection from twitter streams as a sequence labeling problem

Giannis Bekoulis, Johannes Deleu, Thomas Demeester, Chris Develder

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Abstract
This paper introduces improved methods for sub-event detection in social media streams, by applying neural sequence models not only on the level of individual posts, but also directly on the stream level. Current approaches to identify sub-events within a given event, such as a goal during a soccer match, essentially do not exploit the sequential nature of social media streams. We address this shortcoming by framing the sub-event detection problem in social media streams as a sequence labeling task and adopt a neural sequence architecture that explicitly accounts for the chronological order of posts. Specifically, we (i) establish a neural baseline that outperforms a graph-based state-of-the-art method for binary sub-event detection (2.7% micro-F1 improvement), as well as (ii) demonstrate superiority of a recurrent neural network model on the posts sequence level for labeled sub-events (2.4% bin-level F1 improvement over non-sequential models).
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N19-1081
Volume:
Proceedings of the 2019 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies, Volume 1 (Long and Short Papers)
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June
Year:
2019
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Minneapolis, Minnesota
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Jill Burstein, Christy Doran, Thamar Solorio
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NAACL
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Association for Computational Linguistics
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745–750
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URL:
https://aclanthology.org/N19-1081
DOI:
10.18653/v1/N19-1081
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Giannis Bekoulis, Johannes Deleu, Thomas Demeester, and Chris Develder. 2019. Sub-event detection from twitter streams as a sequence labeling problem. In Proceedings of the 2019 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies, Volume 1 (Long and Short Papers), pages 745–750, Minneapolis, Minnesota. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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Sub-event detection from twitter streams as a sequence labeling problem (Bekoulis et al., NAACL 2019)
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