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| Title | Event Extraction Using Distant Supervision |
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| Authors | Kevin Reschke, Martin Jankowiak, Mihai Surdeanu, Christopher Manning and Daniel Jurafsky |
| Abstract | Distant supervision is a successful paradigm that gathers training data for information extraction systems by automatically aligning vast databases of facts with text. Previous work has demonstrated its usefulness for the extraction of binary relations such as a person's employer or a film's director. Here, we extend the distant supervision approach to template-based event extraction, focusing on the extraction of passenger counts, aircraft types, and other facts concerning airplane crash events. We present a new publicly available dataset and event extraction task in the plane crash domain based on Wikipedia infoboxes and newswire text. Using this dataset, we conduct a preliminary evaluation of four distantly supervised extraction models which assign named entity mentions in text to entries in the event template. Our results indicate that joint inference over sequences of candidate entity mentions is beneficial. Furthermore, we demonstrate that the Searn algorithm outperforms a linear-chain CRF and strong baselines with local inference. |
| Topics | Text Mining, Statistical and Machine Learning Methods |
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Event Extraction Using Distant Supervision |
| Bibtex | @InProceedings{RESCHKE14.1127, author = {Kevin Reschke and Martin Jankowiak and Mihai Surdeanu and Christopher Manning and Daniel Jurafsky}, title = {Event Extraction Using Distant Supervision}, booktitle = {Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC'14)}, year = {2014}, month = {may}, date = {26-31}, address = {Reykjavik, Iceland}, editor = {Nicoletta Calzolari (Conference Chair) and Khalid Choukri and Thierry Declerck and Hrafn Loftsson and Bente Maegaard and Joseph Mariani and Asuncion Moreno and Jan Odijk and Stelios Piperidis}, publisher = {European Language Resources Association (ELRA)}, isbn = {978-2-9517408-8-4}, language = {english} } |