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MULTI-ROLE EVENT ARGUMENT EXTRACTION AS MACHINE READING COMPREHENSION WITH ARGUMENT MATCH OPTIMIZATION

  • Jingcong Tao
  • , Youcheng Pan
  • , Xinyu Li
  • , Baotian Hu*
  • , Weihua Peng*
  • , Cuiyun Han
  • , Xiaolong Wang
  • *Corresponding author for this work
  • Harbin Institute of Technology Shenzhen
  • Baidu Inc

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Abstract

Extracting arguments for the pre-defined roles is a crucial step for event extraction. Recently, there are some insightful works that view it as a machine reading comprehension problem and achieve significant progress. However, most of them need multi-turns to extract the arguments of each role independently, which ignores the relationships among roles in the same event. To alleviate this problem, we propose a novel Multi-Role Argument Extraction method named MRAE which can exploit the relationship of event roles by extracting all arguments for an event simultaneously. To force MRAE to locate more arguments accurately, we propose an argument match optimization loss based on the minimum risk training to exploit sentence-level F1 score. We conduct experiments on the widely used ACE2005 dataset. The experimental results demonstrate that MRAE outperforms the competitor methods by at least +1.2% F1 score on argument extraction, and also shows superiority on data scarce scenarios.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publication2022 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, ICASSP 2022 - Proceedings
PublisherInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
Pages6347-6351
Number of pages5
ISBN (Electronic)9781665405409
DOIs
StatePublished - 2022
Externally publishedYes
Event2022 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing, ICASSP 2022 - Hybrid, Singapore
Duration: 22 May 202227 May 2022

Publication series

NameICASSP, IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing - Proceedings
Volume2022-May
ISSN (Print)1520-6149

Conference

Conference2022 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing, ICASSP 2022
Country/TerritorySingapore
CityHybrid
Period22/05/2227/05/22

Keywords

  • data scarce
  • machine reading comprehension
  • minimum risk training
  • multi-role event argument extraction

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