Enhancing Document-level Event Argument Extraction with Contextual Clues and Role Relevance

Wanlong Liu, Shaohuan Cheng, Dingyi Zeng, Qu Hong


Abstract
Document-level event argument extraction poses new challenges of long input and cross-sentence inference compared to its sentence-level counterpart. However, most prior works focus on capturing the relations between candidate arguments and the event trigger in each event, ignoring two crucial points: a) non-argument contextual clue information; b) the relevance among argument roles. In this paper, we propose a SCPRG (Span-trigger-based Contextual Pooling and latent Role Guidance) model, which contains two novel and effective modules for the above problem. The Span-Trigger-based Contextual Pooling (STCP) adaptively selects and aggregates the information of non-argument clue words based on the context attention weights of specific argument-trigger pairs from pre-trained model. The Role-based Latent Information Guidance (RLIG) module constructs latent role representations, makes them interact through role-interactive encoding to capture semantic relevance, and merges them into candidate arguments. Both STCP and RLIG introduce no more than 1% new parameters compared with the base model and can be easily applied to other event extraction models, which are compact and transplantable. Experiments on two public datasets show that our SCPRG outperforms previous state-of-the-art methods, with 1.13 F1 and 2.64 F1 improvements on RAMS and WikiEvents respectively. Further analyses illustrate the interpretability of our model.
Anthology ID:
2023.findings-acl.817
Volume:
Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2023
Month:
July
Year:
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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12908–12922
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URL:
https://aclanthology.org/2023.findings-acl.817
DOI:
10.18653/v1/2023.findings-acl.817
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Wanlong Liu, Shaohuan Cheng, Dingyi Zeng, and Qu Hong. 2023. Enhancing Document-level Event Argument Extraction with Contextual Clues and Role Relevance. In Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2023, pages 12908–12922, Toronto, Canada. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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Enhancing Document-level Event Argument Extraction with Contextual Clues and Role Relevance (Liu et al., Findings 2023)
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https://aclanthology.org/2023.findings-acl.817.pdf
Code
 LWL-cpu/SCPRG-master
Data
WikiEvents