A language-independent neural network for event detection  

作　　者：Xiaocheng FENG Bing QIN Ting LIU 

机构地区：[1]Computer Science and Technology, Harbin Institute of Technology

出　　处：《Science China(Information Sciences)》2018年第9期75-86,共12页中国科学（信息科学）（英文版）

基　　金：supported by National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant Nos.61632011,61772156,61702137)

摘　　要：Event detection remains a challenge because of the difficulty of encoding the word semantics in various contexts. Previous approaches have heavily depended on language-specific knowledge and preexisting natural language processing tools. However, not all languages have such resources and tools available compared with English language. A more promising approach is to automatically learn effective features from data, without relying on language-specific resources. In this study, we develop a language-independent neural network to capture both sequence and chunk information from specific contexts and use them to train an event detector for multiple languages without any manually encoded features. Experiments show that our approach can achieve robust, efficient and accurate results for various languages. In the ACE 2005 English event detection task, our approach achieved a 73.4% F-score with an average of 3.0% absolute improvement compared with state-of-the-art. Additionally, our experimental results are competitive for Chinese and Spanish.Event detection remains a challenge because of the difficulty of encoding the word semantics in various contexts. Previous approaches have heavily depended on language-specific knowledge and preexisting natural language processing tools. However, not all languages have such resources and tools available compared with English language. A more promising approach is to automatically learn effective features from data, without relying on language-specific resources. In this study, we develop a language-independent neural network to capture both sequence and chunk information from specific contexts and use them to train an event detector for multiple languages without any manually encoded features. Experiments show that our approach can achieve robust, efficient and accurate results for various languages. In the ACE 2005 English event detection task, our approach achieved a 73.4% F-score with an average of 3.0% absolute improvement compared with state-of-the-art. Additionally, our experimental results are competitive for Chinese and Spanish.

关 键 词：nature language processing event detection neural networks representation learning 

分 类 号：TP183[自动化与计算机技术—控制理论与控制工程] TP391.1[自动化与计算机技术—控制科学与工程]