The Event and Implied Situation Ontology (ESO): Application and Evaluation

Roxane Segers, Marco Rospocher, Piek Vossen, Egoitz Laparra, German Rigau, Anne-Lyse Minard


Abstract
This paper presents the Event and Implied Situation Ontology (ESO), a manually constructed resource which formalizes the pre and post situations of events and the roles of the entities affected by an event. The ontology is built on top of existing resources such as WordNet, SUMO and FrameNet. The ontology is injected to the Predicate Matrix, a resource that integrates predicate and role information from amongst others FrameNet, VerbNet, PropBank, NomBank and WordNet. We illustrate how these resources are used on large document collections to detect information that otherwise would have remained implicit. The ontology is evaluated on two aspects: recall and precision based on a manually annotated corpus and secondly, on the quality of the knowledge inferred by the situation assertions in the ontology. Evaluation results on the quality of the system show that 50% of the events typed and enriched with ESO assertions are correct.
Anthology ID:
L16-1233
Volume:
Proceedings of the Tenth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC'16)
Month:
May
Year:
2016
Address:
Portorož, Slovenia
Editors:
Nicoletta Calzolari, Khalid Choukri, Thierry Declerck, Sara Goggi, Marko Grobelnik, Bente Maegaard, Joseph Mariani, Helene Mazo, Asuncion Moreno, Jan Odijk, Stelios Piperidis
Venue:
LREC
SIG:
Publisher:
European Language Resources Association (ELRA)
Note:
Pages:
1463–1470
Language:
URL:
https://aclanthology.org/L16-1233
DOI:
Bibkey:
Cite (ACL):
Roxane Segers, Marco Rospocher, Piek Vossen, Egoitz Laparra, German Rigau, and Anne-Lyse Minard. 2016. The Event and Implied Situation Ontology (ESO): Application and Evaluation. In Proceedings of the Tenth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC'16), pages 1463–1470, Portorož, Slovenia. European Language Resources Association (ELRA).
Cite (Informal):
The Event and Implied Situation Ontology (ESO): Application and Evaluation (Segers et al., LREC 2016)
Copy Citation:
PDF:
https://aclanthology.org/L16-1233.pdf
Data
FrameNetNomBank