One, no one and one hundred thousand events: Defining and processing events in an inter-disciplinary perspective

Rachele Sprugnoli*, S. Tonelli

*Autore corrispondente per questo lavoro

Risultato della ricerca: Contributo in rivistaArticolo in rivistapeer review

14 Citazioni (Scopus)

Abstract

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.
Lingua originaleEnglish
pagine (da-a)485-506
Numero di pagine22
RivistaNatural Language Engineering
Volume23
DOI
Stato di pubblicazionePubblicato - 2016

Keywords

  • event detection, temporal information processing, computational linguistics

Fingerprint

Entra nei temi di ricerca di 'One, no one and one hundred thousand events: Defining and processing events in an inter-disciplinary perspective'. Insieme formano una fingerprint unica.

Cita questo