The Impact of Task and Corpus on Event Extraction Systems

The term "event extraction" covers a wide range of information extraction tasks, and methods developed and evaluated for one task may prove quite unsuitable for another. Understanding these task differences is essential to making broad progress in event extraction. We look back at the MUC and ACE tasks in terms of one characteristic, the breadth of the scenario

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2010
• Where: LREC
• Authors: Ralph Grishman
• Keywords: Education, Event Extraction, Extraction Task, Information Extraction Tasks, LREC 2010