@InProceedings{brown-EtAl:2017:EventStory,
  author    = {Brown, Susan  and  Bonial, Claire  and  Obrst, Leo  and  Palmer, Martha},
  title     = {The Rich Event Ontology},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the Events and Stories in the News Workshop},
  month     = {August},
  year      = {2017},
  address   = {Vancouver, Canada},
  publisher = {Association for Computational Linguistics},
  pages     = {87--97},
  abstract  = {In this paper we describe a new lexical semantic resource, The Rich Event
	On-tology, which provides an independent conceptual backbone to unify existing
	semantic role labeling (SRL) schemas and augment them with event-to-event
	causal and temporal relations.        By unifying the FrameNet, VerbNet, Automatic
	Content Extraction, and Rich Entities, Relations and Events resources, the
	ontology serves as a shared hub for the disparate annotation schemas and
	therefore enables the combination of SRL training data into a larger, more
	diverse corpus.  By adding temporal and causal relational information not found
	in any of the independent resources, the ontology facilitates reasoning on and
	across documents, revealing relationships between events that come together in
	temporal and causal chains to build more complex scenarios.  We envision the
	open resource serving as a valuable tool for both moving from the ontology to
	text to query for event types and scenarios of interest, and for moving from
	text to the ontology to access interpretations of events using the combined
	semantic information housed there.},
  url       = {http://www.aclweb.org/anthology/W17-2712}
}