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Event Representation Learning Enhanced with External Commonsense Knowledge (arxiv.org)
4 points by sel1 on Sep 12, 2019 | hide | past | pdf | discuss on HN

In plain words: Events get number-based meanings that add commonsense about what participants intend and feel, so near-identical phrasings can be told apart. It beat the usual text-only approach, scoring 78% higher on the hardest event-similarity test and better predicting what happens next.

Abstract

Prior work has proposed effective methods to learn event representations that can capture syntactic and semantic information over text corpus, demonstrating their effectiveness for downstream tasks such as script event prediction. On the other hand, events extracted from raw texts lacks of commonsense knowledge, such as the intents and emotions of the event participants, which are useful for distinguishing event pairs when there are only subtle differences in their surface realizations. To address this issue, this paper proposes to leverage external commonsense knowledge about the intent and sentiment of the event. Experiments on three event-related tasks, i.e., event similarity, script event prediction and stock market prediction, show that our model obtains much better event embeddings for the tasks, achieving 78% improvements on hard similarity task, yielding more precise inferences on subsequent events under given contexts, and better accuracies in predicting the volatilities of the stock market.

Xiao Ding, Kuo Liao, Ting Liu, Zhongyang Li, Junwen Duan
arXiv:1909.05190 · cs.AI, cs.CL, cs.LG · submitted Sep 9, 2019 · updated Jun 24, 2020
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