A Linguistic Resource for Discovering Event Structures and Resolving Event Coreference

In this paper, we present a linguistic resource that annotates event structures in texts. We consider an event structure as a collection of events that interact with each other in a given situation. We interpret the interactions between events as event relations. In this regard, we propose and annotate a set of six relations that best capture the concept of event structure. These relations are: subevent, reason, purpose, enablement, precedence and related. A document from this resource can encode multiple event structures and an event structure can be described across multiple documents. In order to unify event structures, we also annotate inter- and intra-document event coreference. Moreover, we provide methodologies for automatic discovery of event structures from texts. First, we group the events that constitute an event structure into event clusters and then, we use supervised learning frameworks to classify the relations that exist between events from the same cluster.

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2008
• Where: LREC
• Authors: Cosmin Adrian Bejan, Sanda M. Harabagiu
• Keywords: Annotate, Education, Event Relations, Event Structure, LREC 2008