Is formalizing events necessary for full exploitation

Authors:
Antonio Badia
Affiliations:
University of Louisville, Louisville, KY, USA
Venue:
ESAIR '10 Proceedings of the third workshop on Exploiting semantic annotations in information retrieval
Year:
2010

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Abstract

Part of what makes event extraction difficult is the lack of a clear definition of the event concept. We argue that a good definition would be a positive contribution to Information Extraction and its applications. We give a preliminary discussion of a logical definition to stimulate discussion.