| Challenge: | a novel system allows users to customize event extraction to find new event types and their arguments. |
| Approach: | They propose a system that allows a user to find, expand and filter event triggers by exploring an unannotated development corpus. |
| Outcome: | The proposed system can find, expand and filter event triggers from an unannotated development corpus . it trains a generic argument attachment model for extracting Actor, Place, and Time . |
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