Graph based Neural Networks for Event Factuality Prediction using Syntactic and Semantic Structures (P19-1)
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| Challenge: | Existing work on event factuality prediction (EFP) relies on syntactic and semantic information to identify important context words. |
| Approach: | They propose a graph-based neural network that integrates syntactic and semantic information more effectively. |
| Outcome: | The proposed model integrates syntactic and semantic information more effectively . it provides more meaningful information for downstream tasks than classification formulations . |
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