EventPlus: A Temporal Event Understanding Pipeline
Mingyu Derek Ma, Jiao Sun, Mu Yang, Kung-Hsiang Huang, Nuan Wen, Shikhar Singh, Rujun Han, Nanyun Peng
Abstract
We present EventPlus, a temporal event understanding pipeline that integrates various state-of-the-art event understanding components including event trigger and type detection, event argument detection, event duration and temporal relation extraction. Event information, especially event temporal knowledge, is a type of common sense knowledge that helps people understand how stories evolve and provides predictive hints for future events. EventPlus as the first comprehensive temporal event understanding pipeline provides a convenient tool for users to quickly obtain annotations about events and their temporal information for any user-provided document. Furthermore, we show EventPlus can be easily adapted to other domains (e.g., biomedical domain). We make EventPlus publicly available to facilitate event-related information extraction and downstream applications.
BibTeX
@inproceedings{ma-etal-2021-eventplus,
title = "{E}vent{P}lus: A Temporal Event Understanding Pipeline",
author = "Ma, Mingyu Derek and
Sun, Jiao and
Yang, Mu and
Huang, Kung-Hsiang and
Wen, Nuan and
Singh, Shikhar and
Han, Rujun and
Peng, Nanyun",
editor = "Sil, Avi and
Lin, Xi Victoria",
booktitle = "Proceedings of the 2021 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies: Demonstrations",
month = jun,
year = "2021",
address = "Online",
publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
url = "https://aclanthology.org/2021.naacl-demos.7/",
doi = "10.18653/v1/2021.naacl-demos.7",
pages = "56--65"
}