Target-dependent Event Detection: A New Task to Event Extraction from News

  • Tiantian Zhang
  • , Xin Mao
  • , Dejian Li
  • , Meirong Ma
  • , Hao Yuan
  • , Jianchao Zhu
  • , Man Lan*
  • *Corresponding author for this work

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Abstract

Event extraction aims to detect events and extract event arguments. However, various events are not only too nuanced and complex to distinguish, but also involve multiple entities in the real-world scenario, especially in the financial field. This brings a great challenge to the current event extraction. To address these problems, previous event-centric methods detect events first and then extract arguments. Due to the diversity and complexity of events, event detection has a low performance, which is unfit for the huge amount of news in the real world. Given that the performance of named entity recognition (NER) is satisfactory, we shift our perspective from event-centric to target-centric view. In this paper, we propose a new task: target-dependent event detection (TDED), which aims to extract target entities and detect their corresponding events. We also propose a semantic and syntactic aware approach to support thousands of target entity extraction first and dozens of event types detection, that can be applied to massive corpora. Experimental results on a real-world Chinese financial dataset demonstrate that our model outperforms previous methods, especially in complex scenarios.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationProceedings - 2021 IEEE International Conference on Big Data, Big Data 2021
EditorsYixin Chen, Heiko Ludwig, Yicheng Tu, Usama Fayyad, Xingquan Zhu, Xiaohua Tony Hu, Suren Byna, Xiong Liu, Jianping Zhang, Shirui Pan, Vagelis Papalexakis, Jianwu Wang, Alfredo Cuzzocrea, Carlos Ordonez
PublisherInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
Pages571-580
Number of pages10
ISBN (Electronic)9781665439022
DOIs
StatePublished - 2021
Event2021 IEEE International Conference on Big Data, Big Data 2021 - Virtual, Online, United States
Duration: 15 Dec 202118 Dec 2021

Publication series

NameProceedings - 2021 IEEE International Conference on Big Data, Big Data 2021

Conference

Conference2021 IEEE International Conference on Big Data, Big Data 2021
Country/TerritoryUnited States
CityVirtual, Online
Period15/12/2118/12/21

Keywords

  • entity recognition
  • event detection
  • event keywords
  • syntactic dependency distance
  • target-dependent

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