The Event StoryLine Corpus: A New Benchmark for Causal and Temporal Relation Extraction

Tommaso Caselli, Piek Vossen


Abstract
This paper reports on the Event StoryLine Corpus (ESC) v1.0, a new benchmark dataset for the temporal and causal relation detection. By developing this dataset, we also introduce a new task, the StoryLine Extraction from news data, which aims at extracting and classifying events relevant for stories, from across news documents spread in time and clustered around a single seminal event or topic. In addition to describing the dataset, we also report on three baselines systems whose results show the complexity of the task and suggest directions for the development of more robust systems.
Anthology ID:
W17-2711
Volume:
Proceedings of the Events and Stories in the News Workshop
Month:
August
Year:
2017
Address:
Vancouver, Canada
Editors:
Tommaso Caselli, Ben Miller, Marieke van Erp, Piek Vossen, Martha Palmer, Eduard Hovy, Teruko Mitamura, David Caswell
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EventStory
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Publisher:
Association for Computational Linguistics
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Pages:
77–86
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URL:
https://aclanthology.org/W17-2711
DOI:
10.18653/v1/W17-2711
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Cite (ACL):
Tommaso Caselli and Piek Vossen. 2017. The Event StoryLine Corpus: A New Benchmark for Causal and Temporal Relation Extraction. In Proceedings of the Events and Stories in the News Workshop, pages 77–86, Vancouver, Canada. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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The Event StoryLine Corpus: A New Benchmark for Causal and Temporal Relation Extraction (Caselli & Vossen, EventStory 2017)
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