Jointly Multiple Events Extraction via Attention-based Graph Information Aggregation
Xiao Liu, Zhunchen Luo, Heyan Huang · 2018
Event extraction is of practical utility in natural language processing.In the real world, it is a common phenomenon that multiple events existing in the same sentence, where extracting them are more difficult than extracting a single event.Previous works on modeling the associations between events by sequential modeling methods suffer a lot from the low efficiency in capturing very long-range dependencies.In this paper, we propose a novel Jointly Multiple Events Extraction (JMEE) framework to jointly extract multiple event triggers and arguments by introducing syntactic shortcut arcs to enhance information flow and attention-based graph convolution networks to model graph information.The experiment results demonstrate that our proposed framework achieves competitive results compared with state-of-the-art methods.