Simon Ostermann

Simon Ostermann

NLP & AI Researcher @ DFKI. Mechanistic interpretability and multilingual NLP, with a focus on low-resource languages.

Aligning Script Events with Narrative Texts

Published in Proceedings of the 6th Joint Conference on Lexical and Computational Semantics (*SEM 2017), 2017

Script knowledge plays a central role in text understanding and is relevant for a variety of downstream tasks. In this paper, we consider two recent datasets which provide a rich and general representation of script events in terms of paraphrase sets. We introduce the task of mapping event mentions in narrative texts to such script event types, and present a model for this task that exploits rich linguistic representations as well as information on temporal ordering. The results of our experiments demonstrate that this complex task is indeed feasible.

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Recommended citation: Simon Ostermann, Michael Roth, Stefan Thater, and Manfred Pinkal. (2017). "Aligning Script Events with Narrative Texts." Proceedings of the 6th Joint Conference on Lexical and Computational Semantics (*SEM 2017).
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