TY - JOUR
T1 - One, no one and one hundred thousand events: Defining and processing events in an inter-disciplinary perspective
AU - Sprugnoli, Rachele
AU - Tonelli, S.
PY - 2016
Y1 - 2016
N2 - We present an overview of event definition and processing spanning 25 years of research in NLP. We first provide linguistic background to the notion of event, and then present past attempts to formalize this concept in annotation standards to foster the development of benchmarks for event extraction systems. This ranges from MUC-3 in 1991 to the Time and Space Track challenge at SemEval 2015. Besides, we shed light on other disciplines in which the notion of event plays a crucial role, with a focus on the historical domain. Our goal is to provide a comprehensive study on event definitions and investigate which potential past efforts in the NLP community may have in a different research domain. We present the results of a questionnaire, where the notion of event for historians is put in relation to the NLP perspective.
AB - We present an overview of event definition and processing spanning 25 years of research in NLP. We first provide linguistic background to the notion of event, and then present past attempts to formalize this concept in annotation standards to foster the development of benchmarks for event extraction systems. This ranges from MUC-3 in 1991 to the Time and Space Track challenge at SemEval 2015. Besides, we shed light on other disciplines in which the notion of event plays a crucial role, with a focus on the historical domain. Our goal is to provide a comprehensive study on event definitions and investigate which potential past efforts in the NLP community may have in a different research domain. We present the results of a questionnaire, where the notion of event for historians is put in relation to the NLP perspective.
KW - event detection, temporal information processing, computational linguistics
KW - event detection, temporal information processing, computational linguistics
UR - http://hdl.handle.net/10807/132832
UR - https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/natural-language-engineering/article/one-no-one-and-one-hundred-thousand-events-defining-and-processing-events-in-an-interdisciplinary-perspective/c6f4ea481695acc841899031ebe2c059
U2 - 10.1017/S1351324916000292
DO - 10.1017/S1351324916000292
M3 - Article
SN - 1351-3249
VL - 23
SP - 485
EP - 506
JO - Natural Language Engineering
JF - Natural Language Engineering
ER -