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Recognition of Named-Event Passages in News Articles

Computation and Language 2013-06-21 v1 Information Retrieval

Abstract

We extend the concept of Named Entities to Named Events - commonly occurring events such as battles and earthquakes. We propose a method for finding specific passages in news articles that contain information about such events and report our preliminary evaluation results. Collecting "Gold Standard" data presents many problems, both practical and conceptual. We present a method for obtaining such data using the Amazon Mechanical Turk service.

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@article{arxiv.1306.4908,
  title  = {Recognition of Named-Event Passages in News Articles},
  author = {Luis Marujo and Wang Ling and Anatole Gershman and Jaime Carbonell and João P. Neto and David Matos},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1306.4908},
  year   = {2013}
}

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In 25th International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING 2012)