Event detection(ED)seeks to recognize event triggers and classify them into the predefined event types.Chinese ED is formulated as a character-level task owing to the uncertain word boundaries.Prior methods try to inc...Event detection(ED)seeks to recognize event triggers and classify them into the predefined event types.Chinese ED is formulated as a character-level task owing to the uncertain word boundaries.Prior methods try to incorpo-rate word-level information into characters to enhance their semantics.However,they experience two problems.First,they fail to incorporate word-level information into each character the word encompasses,causing the insufficient word-charac-ter interaction problem.Second,they struggle to distinguish events of similar types with limited annotated instances,which is called the event confusing problem.This paper proposes a novel model named Label-Aware Heterogeneous Graph Attention Network(L-HGAT)to address these two problems.Specifically,we first build a heterogeneous graph of two node types and three edge types to maximally preserve word-character interactions,and then deploy a heterogeneous graph attention network to enhance the semantic propagation between characters and words.Furthermore,we design a pushing-away game to enlarge the predicting gap between the ground-truth event type and its confusing counterpart for each character.Experimental results show that our L-HGAT model consistently achieves superior performance over prior competitive methods.展开更多
基金This work was supported by the National Key Research and Development Program of China under Grant No.2021YFB3100600the Youth Innovation Promotion Association of Chinese Academy of Sciences under Grant No.2021153the State Key Program of National Natural Science Foundation of China under Grant No.U2336202.
文摘Event detection(ED)seeks to recognize event triggers and classify them into the predefined event types.Chinese ED is formulated as a character-level task owing to the uncertain word boundaries.Prior methods try to incorpo-rate word-level information into characters to enhance their semantics.However,they experience two problems.First,they fail to incorporate word-level information into each character the word encompasses,causing the insufficient word-charac-ter interaction problem.Second,they struggle to distinguish events of similar types with limited annotated instances,which is called the event confusing problem.This paper proposes a novel model named Label-Aware Heterogeneous Graph Attention Network(L-HGAT)to address these two problems.Specifically,we first build a heterogeneous graph of two node types and three edge types to maximally preserve word-character interactions,and then deploy a heterogeneous graph attention network to enhance the semantic propagation between characters and words.Furthermore,we design a pushing-away game to enlarge the predicting gap between the ground-truth event type and its confusing counterpart for each character.Experimental results show that our L-HGAT model consistently achieves superior performance over prior competitive methods.
