Event linking: Grounding event reference in a news archive

Joel Nothman, Matthew Honnibal, Ben Hachey, James R. Curran

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Abstract

Interpreting news requires identifying its constituent events. Events are complex linguistically and ontologically, so disambiguating their reference is challenging. We introduce event linking, which canonically labels an event reference with the article where it was first reported. This implicitly relaxes coreference to co-reporting, and will practically enable augmenting news archives with semantic hyperlinks. We annotate and analyse a corpus of 150 documents, extracting 501 links to a news archive with reasonable inter-annotator agreement.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publication50th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, ACL 2012 - Proceedings of the Conference
Pages228-232
Number of pages5
Volume2
Publication statusPublished - 2012
Event50th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, ACL - 2012 - Jeju Island, Korea, Republic of
Duration: 8 Jul 201214 Jul 2012

Other

Other50th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, ACL - 2012
Country/TerritoryKorea, Republic of
CityJeju Island
Period8/07/1214/07/12

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