Events Detection, Coreference and Sequencing: What's next? Overview of the TAC KBP 2017 Event Track

Teruko Mitamura, Zhengzhong Liu, Eduard H. Hovy
2017 Text Analysis Conference  
After two successful years of Event Nugget evaluation in the TAC KBP workshop, the third Event Nugget evaluation track for Knowledge Base Population(KBP) still attracts a lot of attention from the field. In addition to the traditional event nugget and coreference tasks, we introduce a new event sequencing task in English. The new task has brought more complex event relation reasoning to the current evaluations. In this paper we try to provide an overview on the task definition, data annotation,
more » ... evaluation and trending research methods. We further discuss our efforts in creating the new event sequencing task and interesting research problems related to it.
dblp:conf/tac/MitamuraLH17 fatcat:pjjwytjm6jdtpkjjep4h727ovm