Recognizing Spatial Containment Relations between Event Mentions
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چکیده
In this paper, we present an approach for recognizing spatial containment relations that hold between event mentions. Event mentions refer to real-world events that have spatio-temporal properties. While the temporal aspect of event relations has been well-studied, the spatial aspect has received relatively little attention. The difficulty in this task is the highly implicit nature of event locations in discourse. We present a supervised method that is designed to capture both explicit and implicit spatial relation information. Our approach outperforms the only known previous method by a 14 point increase in F1-measure.
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