Document-Level Event Factuality Identification via Adversarial Neural Network (N19-1)
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| Challenge: | Document-level event factuality identification is crucial for discourse understanding in NLP . identifying document-level factual of events requires comprehensive understanding of documents . |
| Approach: | They propose to construct a corpus annotated with document- and sentence-level event factuality information on English and Chinese texts. |
| Outcome: | The proposed model outperforms baselines on the constructed corpus. |
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