Joint Modeling of Arguments for Event Understanding

Yunmo Chen, Tongfei Chen, Benjamin Van Durme · 2020

We recognize the task of event argument linking in documents as similar to that of intent slot resolution in dialogue, providing a Transformer-based model that extends from a recently proposed solution to resolve references to slots.The approach allows for joint consideration of argument candidates given a detected event, which we illustrate leads to state-of-the-art performance in multi-sentence argument linking. 1

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