| Challenge: | a goal-act is an activity that represents a common reason people go to a location . recognizing goals is essential for narrative text understanding and story comprehension . |
| Approach: | They use a text corpus and semi-supervised learning to learn goal-acts for specific locations . they extract activities and locations that co-occur in goal-oriented syntactic patterns . |
| Outcome: | The proposed method outperforms baseline methods when judged against goal-acts identified by human annotators. |
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