OmniEvent: A Comprehensive, Fair, and Easy-to-Use Toolkit for Event Understanding (2023.emnlp-demo)
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| Challenge: | Event understanding is fundamental for humans to understand the world. |
| Approach: | They propose an event understanding toolkit called OmniEvent that is comprehensive and fair . it supports mainstream modeling paradigms and the processing of 15 widely-used datasets . |
| Outcome: | The toolkit supports mainstream modeling paradigms and the processing of 15 widely-used English and Chinese datasets. |
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