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Multi-faceted Event Recognition with Bootstrapped Dictionaries

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Abstract

Identifying documents that describe a specific type of event is challenging due to the high complexity and variety of event descriptions. We propose a multi-faceted event recognition approach, which identifies documents about an event using event phrases as well as defining characteristics of the event. Our research focuses on civil unrest events and learns civil unrest expressions as well as phrases corresponding to potential agents and reasons for civil unrest. We present a bootstrapping algorithm that automatically acquires event phrases, agent terms, and purpose (reason) phrases from unannotated texts. We use the bootstrapped dictionaries to identify civil unrest documents and show that multi-faceted event recognition can yield high accuracy.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Title of host publicationProceedings of the 2nd Workshop on Computational Linguistics for Literature, CLfL 2013 at the 2013 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics
Subtitle of host publicationHuman Language Technologies, NAACL-HLT 2013
EditorsDavid Elson, Anna Kazantseva, Stan Szpakowicz
PublisherAssociation for Computational Linguistics (ACL)
Pages41-51
Number of pages11
ISBN (Electronic)9781937284473
StatePublished - 2013
Externally publishedYes
Event2nd Workshop on Computational Linguistics for Literature, CLfL 2013 at the 2013 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies, NAACL-HLT 2013 - Atlanta, United States
Duration: Jun 14 2013 → …

Publication series

NameProceedings of the 2nd Workshop on Computational Linguistics for Literature, CLfL 2013 at the 2013 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies, NAACL-HLT 2013

Conference

Conference2nd Workshop on Computational Linguistics for Literature, CLfL 2013 at the 2013 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies, NAACL-HLT 2013
Country/TerritoryUnited States
CityAtlanta
Period6/14/13 → …

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Language and Linguistics
  • Linguistics and Language

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