Extending Event Detection to New Types with Learning from Keywords

Viet Dac Lai, Thien Nguyen


Abstract
Traditional event detection classifies a word or a phrase in a given sentence for a set of prede- fined event types. The limitation of such pre- defined set is that it prevents the adaptation of the event detection models to new event types. We study a novel formulation of event detec- tion that describes types via several keywords to match the contexts in documents. This fa- cilitates the operation of the models to new types. We introduce a novel feature-based attention mechanism for convolutional neural networks for event detection in the new for- mulation. Our extensive experiments demon- strate the benefits of the new formulation for new type extension for event detection as well as the proposed attention mechanism for this problem
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D19-5532
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Proceedings of the 5th Workshop on Noisy User-generated Text (W-NUT 2019)
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November
Year:
2019
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Hong Kong, China
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Wei Xu, Alan Ritter, Tim Baldwin, Afshin Rahimi
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WNUT
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Association for Computational Linguistics
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243–248
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https://aclanthology.org/D19-5532
DOI:
10.18653/v1/D19-5532
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Viet Dac Lai and Thien Nguyen. 2019. Extending Event Detection to New Types with Learning from Keywords. In Proceedings of the 5th Workshop on Noisy User-generated Text (W-NUT 2019), pages 243–248, Hong Kong, China. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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