Challenge: Existing methods extract arguments of each role independently, ignoring the relationship between different roles.
Approach: They propose a neural model that captures the correlations between different argument roles within an event.
Outcome: Extensive experiments on the benchmark dataset ACE2005 show the superiority of the proposed model over existing methods.

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