Towards Event Extraction from Speech with Contextual Clues

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2401.15385v1
• Date: Sat, 27 Jan 2024 11:07:19 GMT
• Title: Towards Event Extraction from Speech with Contextual Clues
• Authors: Jingqi Kang, Tongtong Wu, Jinming Zhao, Guitao Wang, Guilin Qi, Yuan-Fang Li, Gholamreza Haffari
• Abstract summary: We introduce the Speech Event Extraction (SpeechEE) task and construct three synthetic training sets and one human-spoken test set. Compared to event extraction from text, SpeechEE poses greater challenges mainly due to complex speech signals that are continuous and have no word boundaries. Our method brings significant improvements on all datasets, achieving a maximum F1 gain of 10.7%.
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• License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
• Abstract: While text-based event extraction has been an active research area and has seen successful application in many domains, extracting semantic events from speech directly is an under-explored problem. In this paper, we introduce the Speech Event Extraction (SpeechEE) task and construct three synthetic training sets and one human-spoken test set. Compared to event extraction from text, SpeechEE poses greater challenges mainly due to complex speech signals that are continuous and have no word boundaries. Additionally, unlike perceptible sound events, semantic events are more subtle and require a deeper understanding. To tackle these challenges, we introduce a sequence-to-structure generation paradigm that can produce events from speech signals in an end-to-end manner, together with a conditioned generation method that utilizes speech recognition transcripts as the contextual clue. We further propose to represent events with a flat format to make outputs more natural language-like. Our experimental results show that our method brings significant improvements on all datasets, achieving a maximum F1 gain of 10.7%. The code and datasets are released on https://github.com/jodie-kang/SpeechEE.

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