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Automatic Event Salience Identification
Zhengzhong Liu, Chenyan Xiong, Teruko Mitamura +1
Identifying the salience (i.e. importance) of discourse units is an important task in language understanding. While events play important roles in text documents, little research e…
Graph-Based Decoding for Event Sequencing and Coreference Resolution
Zhengzhong Liu, Teruko Mitamura, Eduard Hovy
Events in text documents are interrelated in complex ways. In this paper, we study two types of relation: Event Coreference and Event Sequencing. We show that the popular tree-like…
Towards Better Text Understanding and Retrieval through Kernel Entity Salience Modeling
Chenyan Xiong, Zhengzhong Liu, Jamie Callan +1
This paper presents a Kernel Entity Salience Model (KESM) that improves text understanding and retrieval by better estimating entity salience (importance) in documents. KESM repres…