GENE: Global Event Network Embedding

Qi Zeng, Manling Li, Tuan Lai, Heng Ji, Mohit Bansal, Hanghang Tong

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Abstract

Current methods for event representation ignore related events in a corpus-level global context. For a deep and comprehensive understanding of complex events, we introduce a new task, Event Network Embedding, which aims to represent events by capturing the connections among events. We propose a novel framework, Global Event Network Embedding (GENE), that encodes the event network with a multi-view graph encoder while preserving the graph topology and node semantics. The graph encoder is trained by minimizing both structural and semantic losses. We develop a new series of structured probing tasks, and show that our approach effectively outperforms baseline models on node typing, argument role classification, and event coreference resolution.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Title of host publicationTextGraphs 2021 - Graph-Based Methods for Natural Language Processing, Proceedings of the 15th Workshop - in conjunction with the 2021 Annual Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics, NAACL 2021
EditorsAlexander Panchenko, Fragkiskos D. Malliaros, Varvara Logacheva, Abhik Jana, Dmitry Ustalov, Peter Jansen
PublisherAssociation for Computational Linguistics (ACL)
Pages42-53
Number of pages12
ISBN (Electronic)9781954085381
StatePublished - 2021
Event15th Workshop on Graph-Based Methods for Natural Language Processing, TextGraphs 2021 - Mexico City, Mexico
Duration: Jun 11 2021 → …

Publication series

NameTextGraphs 2021 - Graph-Based Methods for Natural Language Processing, Proceedings of the 15th Workshop - in conjunction with the 2021 Annual Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics, NAACL 2021

Conference

Conference15th Workshop on Graph-Based Methods for Natural Language Processing, TextGraphs 2021
Country/TerritoryMexico
CityMexico City
Period6/11/21 → …

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Language and Linguistics
  • Computational Theory and Mathematics
  • Software
  • Linguistics and Language

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