What can linguistics contribute to event extraction
Charles J. Fillmore, Srini Narayanan, Collin F. Baker · 2006
This paper examines the question of how a linguistic analysis of a written document can contribute to identifying, tracking and populating the “eventualities ” that are presented in the document, either directly or indirectly, and representing de-grees of belief concerning them. It is our view that the role of lexical analysis (as exemplified in the research carried out in the FrameNet project) is greater than usually assumed, so this paper is partly an attempt to clarify the boundary between on the one hand the information that can be derived on the basis of linguistic knowledge alone (composed of lexical meanings and the meanings of grammatical constructions) and on the other hand, reasoning based on beliefs about the source of a document, world knowledge, and “common sense”. Since the general linguistic processes described in this paper