EventOA: An Event Ontology Alignment Benchmark Based on FrameNet and Wikidata

Shaoru Guo, Chenhao Wang, Yubo Chen, Kang Liu, Ru Li, Jun Zhao


Abstract
Event ontology provides a shared and formal specification about what happens in the real world and can benefit many natural language understanding tasks. However, the independent development of event ontologies often results in heterogeneous representations that raise the need for establishing alignments between semantically related events. There exists a series of works about ontology alignment (OA), but they only focus on the entity-based OA, and neglect the event-based OA. To fill the gap, we construct an Event Ontology Alignment (EventOA) dataset based on FrameNet and Wikidata, which consists of 900+ event type alignments and 8,000+ event argument alignments. Furthermore, we propose a multi-view event ontology alignment (MEOA) method, which utilizes description information (i.e., name, alias and definition) and neighbor information (i.e., subclass and superclass) to obtain richer representation of the event ontologies. Extensive experiments show that our MEOA outperforms the existing entity-based OA methods and can serve as a strong baseline for EventOA research.
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2023.findings-acl.637
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Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2023
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July
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2023
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Toronto, Canada
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Anna Rogers, Jordan Boyd-Graber, Naoaki Okazaki
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Findings
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Association for Computational Linguistics
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10038–10052
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https://aclanthology.org/2023.findings-acl.637
DOI:
10.18653/v1/2023.findings-acl.637
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Shaoru Guo, Chenhao Wang, Yubo Chen, Kang Liu, Ru Li, and Jun Zhao. 2023. EventOA: An Event Ontology Alignment Benchmark Based on FrameNet and Wikidata. In Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2023, pages 10038–10052, Toronto, Canada. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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EventOA: An Event Ontology Alignment Benchmark Based on FrameNet and Wikidata (Guo et al., Findings 2023)
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