University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

Event network embedding

Zeng, Qi

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Title
Event network embedding
Author(s)
Zeng, Qi
Issue Date
2021-12-09
Director of Research (if dissertation) or Advisor (if thesis)
Ji, Heng
Department of Study
Computer Science
Discipline
Computer Science
Degree Granting Institution
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Degree Name
M.S.
Degree Level
Thesis
Date of Ingest
2022-04-29T21:47:48Z
Keyword(s)
natural language processing
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. As a direct application, We introduce a new task, Unsupervised Event Schema Graph Matching, which aims to align event instance graphs and event schema graphs by finding node correspondence. We develop the first benchmark and collect a dataset of 3,740 event instance graphs from IED-scenario news articles, 75 of which are paired with 4 event schema graphs by human annotation. Our analysis on this task sheds light on the shortcomings of current state-of-the-art models on this event understanding task.
Graduation Semester
2021-12
Type of Resource
Thesis
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