Implicit Argument Prediction with Event Knowledge (N18-1)

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Challenge: Existing work on identifying implicit arguments has been limited due to large number of features and small datasets . a neural model that uses narrative coherence and entity salience is used to train implicit arguments .
Approach: They propose to train models for implicit argument prediction on a simple cloze task . they use narrative coherence and entity salience to build a neural model .
Outcome: The proposed model performs better on synthetic and natural data.

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