Weakly-Supervised Modeling of Contextualized Event Embedding for Discourse Relations

I-Ta Lee     Maria Leonor Pacheco     Dan Goldwasser    
Findings of the Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP findings), 2020
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Abstract

Representing, and reasoning over, long narratives requires models that can deal with complex event structures connected through multiple relationship types. This paper suggests to represent this type of information as a narrative graph and learn contextualized event representations over it using a relational graph neural network model. We train our model to capture event relations, derived from the Penn Discourse Tree Bank, on a huge corpus, and show that our multi-relational contextualized event representation can improve performance when learning script knowledge without direct supervision and provide a better representation for the implicit discourse sense classification task.


Bib Entry

  @InProceedings{LPG_emnlp20,
    author = "I-Ta Lee and Maria Leonor Pacheco and Dan Goldwasser",
    title = "Weakly-Supervised Modeling of Contextualized Event Embedding for Discourse Relations",
    booktitle = "Findings of the Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP findings)",
    year = "2020"
  }