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    <abstract>Supervised event extraction systems are limited in their accuracy due to the lack of available training data. We present a method for self-training event extraction systems by bootstrapping additional training data. This is done by taking advantage of the occurrence of multiple mentions of the same event instances across newswire articles from multiple sources. If our system can make a high-confidence extraction of some mentions in such a cluster, it can then acquire diverse training examples by adding the other mentions as well. Our experiments show significant performance improvements on multiple event extractors over ACE 2005 and TAC-KBP 2015 datasets.</abstract>
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%0 Conference Proceedings
%T Semi-Supervised Event Extraction with Paraphrase Clusters
%A Ferguson, James
%A Lockard, Colin
%A Weld, Daniel
%A Hajishirzi, Hannaneh
%Y Walker, Marilyn
%Y Ji, Heng
%Y Stent, Amanda
%S Proceedings of the 2018 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies, Volume 2 (Short Papers)
%D 2018
%8 June
%I Association for Computational Linguistics
%C New Orleans, Louisiana
%F ferguson-etal-2018-semi
%X Supervised event extraction systems are limited in their accuracy due to the lack of available training data. We present a method for self-training event extraction systems by bootstrapping additional training data. This is done by taking advantage of the occurrence of multiple mentions of the same event instances across newswire articles from multiple sources. If our system can make a high-confidence extraction of some mentions in such a cluster, it can then acquire diverse training examples by adding the other mentions as well. Our experiments show significant performance improvements on multiple event extractors over ACE 2005 and TAC-KBP 2015 datasets.
%R 10.18653/v1/N18-2058
%U https://aclanthology.org/N18-2058
%U https://doi.org/10.18653/v1/N18-2058
%P 359-364

Markdown (Informal)

[Semi-Supervised Event Extraction with Paraphrase Clusters](https://aclanthology.org/N18-2058) (Ferguson et al., NAACL 2018)

• Semi-Supervised Event Extraction with Paraphrase Clusters (Ferguson et al., NAACL 2018)

ACL

• James Ferguson, Colin Lockard, Daniel Weld, and Hannaneh Hajishirzi. 2018. Semi-Supervised Event Extraction with Paraphrase Clusters. In Proceedings of the 2018 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies, Volume 2 (Short Papers), pages 359–364, New Orleans, Louisiana. Association for Computational Linguistics.