Entity, Relation, and Event Extraction with Contextualized Span Representations (D19-1)
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| Challenge: | Existing frameworks for named entity recognition, relation extraction, and event extraction can be easily adapted for new tasks or datasets. |
| Approach: | They propose a framework that enumerates, refins, and scores text spans to capture local (within-sentence) and global (cross-sentent) context. |
| Outcome: | The proposed framework achieves state-of-the-art results on four datasets from a variety of domains. |
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