Joint detection and coreference resolution of entities and events with document-level context aggregation

Samuel Kriman, Heng Ji

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Abstract

Constructing knowledge graphs from unstructured text is an important task that is relevant to many domains. Most previous work focuses on extracting information from sentences or paragraphs, due to the difficulty of analyzing longer contexts. In this paper we propose a new jointly trained model that can be used for various information extraction tasks at the document level. The tasks performed in this paper are entity and event identification, typing, and coreference resolution. In order to improve entity and event extraction, we utilize context-aware representations aggregated from the detected mentions of the corresponding entities and event triggers across the entire document. By extending our system to document-level, we can improve our results by incorporating cross-sentence dependencies and additional contextual information that might not be available at the sentence level, which allows for more globally optimized predictions. We evaluate our system on documents from the ACE05-E+ dataset and find significant improvement over the sentence-level state-of-the-art on entity extraction and event detection.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Title of host publicationACL-IJCNLP 2021 - 59th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics and the 11th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing, Proceedings of the Student Research Workshop
PublisherAssociation for Computational Linguistics (ACL)
Pages174-179
Number of pages6
ISBN (Electronic)9781954085558
StatePublished - 2021
Event2021 Student Research Workshop, SRW 2021 at the 59th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics and the 11th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing, ACL-IJCNLP 2021 - Virtual, Online
Duration: Aug 5 2021Aug 6 2021

Publication series

NameACL-IJCNLP 2021 - 59th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics and the 11th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing, Proceedings of the Student Research Workshop

Conference

Conference2021 Student Research Workshop, SRW 2021 at the 59th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics and the 11th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing, ACL-IJCNLP 2021
CityVirtual, Online
Period8/5/218/6/21

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Language and Linguistics
  • Computational Theory and Mathematics
  • Software
  • Linguistics and Language

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