SemEval-2010 task 10: Linking events and their participants in discourse

  • Authors:
  • Josef Ruppenhofer;Caroline Sporleder;Roser Morante;Collin Baker;Martha Palmer

  • Affiliations:
  • Saarland University;Saarland University;University of Antwerp;ICSI Berkeley, CA;University of Colorado at Boulder

  • Venue:
  • SemEval '10 Proceedings of the 5th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation
  • Year:
  • 2010

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Abstract

We describe the SemEval-2010 shared task on "Linking Events and Their Participants in Discourse". This task is an extension to the classical semantic role labeling task. While semantic role labeling is traditionally viewed as a sentence-internal task, local semantic argument structures clearly interact with each other in a larger context, e.g., by sharing references to specific discourse entities or events. In the shared task we looked at one particular aspect of cross-sentence links between argument structures, namely linking locally uninstantiated roles to their co-referents in the wider discourse context (if such co-referents exist). This task is potentially beneficial for a number of NLP applications, such as information extraction, question answering or text summarization.