Open-Vocabulary Argument Role Prediction for Event Extraction

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2211.01577v1
• Date: Thu, 3 Nov 2022 04:13:37 GMT
• Title: Open-Vocabulary Argument Role Prediction for Event Extraction
• Authors: Yizhu Jiao, Sha Li, Yiqing Xie, Ming Zhong, Heng Ji, Jiawei Han
• Abstract summary: In this paper, we define this essential but under-explored task: open-vocabulary argument role prediction. The goal of this task is to infer a set of argument roles for a given event type. We propose a novel unsupervised framework, RolePred for this task.
• Score: 70.93524366880521
• License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
• Abstract: The argument role in event extraction refers to the relation between an event and an argument participating in it. Despite the great progress in event extraction, existing studies still depend on roles pre-defined by domain experts. These studies expose obvious weakness when extending to emerging event types or new domains without available roles. Therefore, more attention and effort needs to be devoted to automatically customizing argument roles. In this paper, we define this essential but under-explored task: open-vocabulary argument role prediction. The goal of this task is to infer a set of argument roles for a given event type. We propose a novel unsupervised framework, RolePred for this task. Specifically, we formulate the role prediction problem as an in-filling task and construct prompts for a pre-trained language model to generate candidate roles. By extracting and analyzing the candidate arguments, the event-specific roles are further merged and selected. To standardize the research of this task, we collect a new event extraction dataset from WikiPpedia including 142 customized argument roles with rich semantics. On this dataset, RolePred outperforms the existing methods by a large margin. Source code and dataset are available on our GitHub repository: https://github.com/yzjiao/RolePred

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