FIRE 2020 EDNIL Track: Event Detection from News in Indian Languages
Bhargav Dave, Surupendu Gangopadhyay, Prasenjit Majumder, Pushpak Bhattacharya, Sudeshna Sarkar, Sobha Lalitha Devi · Forum for Information Retrieval Evaluation · 2020
The goal of FIRE 2020 EDNIL track was to create a framework which could be used to detect events from news articles in English, Hindi, Bengali, Marathi and Tamil. The track consisted of two tasks: (i) Identifying a piece of text from news articles that contains an event (Event Identification). (ii) Creating an event frame from the news article (Event Frame Extraction). The events that were identified in Event Identification task were Man-made Disaster and Natural Disaster. In Event Frame Extraction task the event frame consists of Event type, Casualties, Time, Place, Reason.