Towards Machine Reading for Interventions from Humanitarian-Assistance Program Literature

Bonan Min, Yee Seng Chan, Haoling Qiu, Joshua Fasching


Abstract
Solving long-lasting problems such as food insecurity requires a comprehensive understanding of interventions applied by governments and international humanitarian assistance organizations, and their results and consequences. Towards achieving this grand goal, a crucial first step is to extract past interventions and when and where they have been applied, from hundreds of thousands of reports automatically. In this paper, we developed a corpus annotated with interventions to foster research, and developed an information extraction system for extracting interventions and their location and time from text. We demonstrate early, very encouraging results on extracting interventions.
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D19-1680
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Proceedings of the 2019 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing and the 9th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing (EMNLP-IJCNLP)
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November
Year:
2019
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Hong Kong, China
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Kentaro Inui, Jing Jiang, Vincent Ng, Xiaojun Wan
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EMNLP | IJCNLP
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SIGDAT
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Association for Computational Linguistics
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6444–6448
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https://aclanthology.org/D19-1680
DOI:
10.18653/v1/D19-1680
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Bonan Min, Yee Seng Chan, Haoling Qiu, and Joshua Fasching. 2019. Towards Machine Reading for Interventions from Humanitarian-Assistance Program Literature. In Proceedings of the 2019 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing and the 9th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing (EMNLP-IJCNLP), pages 6444–6448, Hong Kong, China. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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Towards Machine Reading for Interventions from Humanitarian-Assistance Program Literature (Min et al., EMNLP-IJCNLP 2019)
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