TY - GEN
T1 - Distinguishing Between Foreground and Background Events in News
AU - Aldawsari, Mohammad
AU - Perez, Adrian
AU - Banisakher, Deya
AU - Finlayson, Mark A.
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
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PY - 2020
Y1 - 2020
N2 - Determining whether an event in a news article is a foreground or background event would be useful in many natural language processing tasks, for example, temporal relation extraction, summarization, or storyline generation. We introduce the task of distinguishing between foreground and background events in news articles as well as identifying the general temporal position of background events relative to the foreground period (past, present, future, and their combinations). We achieve good performance (0.73 F1 for background vs. foreground and temporal position, and 0.79 F1 for background vs. foreground only) on a dataset of news articles by leveraging discourse information in a featurized model.
AB - Determining whether an event in a news article is a foreground or background event would be useful in many natural language processing tasks, for example, temporal relation extraction, summarization, or storyline generation. We introduce the task of distinguishing between foreground and background events in news articles as well as identifying the general temporal position of background events relative to the foreground period (past, present, future, and their combinations). We achieve good performance (0.73 F1 for background vs. foreground and temporal position, and 0.79 F1 for background vs. foreground only) on a dataset of news articles by leveraging discourse information in a featurized model.
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M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85122207195
T3 - COLING 2020 - 28th International Conference on Computational Linguistics, Proceedings of the Conference
SP - 5171
EP - 5180
BT - COLING 2020 - 28th International Conference on Computational Linguistics, Proceedings of the Conference
A2 - Scott, Donia
A2 - Bel, Nuria
A2 - Zong, Chengqing
PB - Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)
T2 - 28th International Conference on Computational Linguistics, COLING 2020
Y2 - 8 December 2020 through 13 December 2020
ER -