Learning Constraints and Descriptive Segmentation for Subevent Detection (2021.emnlp-main)
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| Challenge: | Event mentions in text correspond to real-world events of varying degrees of granularity . task of subevent detection aims to resolve this granulem issue by recognizing membership of events . |
| Approach: | They propose a task of event-based text segmentation as an auxiliary task to improve learning for subevent detection. |
| Outcome: | The proposed method outperforms baseline methods on subevent detection, HiEve and IC datasets while achieving decent performance on EventSeg prediction. |
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