Leveraging Open Information Extraction for More Robust Domain Transfer of Event Trigger Detection
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| author | Dukić, David Gashteovski, Kiril Glavaš, Goran Šnajder, Jan |
| author_facet | Dukić, David Gashteovski, Kiril Glavaš, Goran Šnajder, Jan |
| contents | Event detection is a crucial information extraction task in many domains, such as Wikipedia or news. The task typically relies on trigger detection (TD) -- identifying token spans in the text that evoke specific events. While the notion of triggers should ideally be universal across domains, domain transfer for TD from high- to low-resource domains results in significant performance drops. We address the problem of negative transfer in TD by coupling triggers between domains using subject-object relations obtained from a rule-based open information extraction (OIE) system. We demonstrate that OIE relations injected through multi-task training can act as mediators between triggers in different domains, enhancing zero- and few-shot TD domain transfer and reducing performance drops, in particular when transferring from a high-resource source domain (Wikipedia) to a low(er)-resource target domain (news). Additionally, we combine this improved transfer with masked language modeling on the target domain, observing further TD transfer gains. Finally, we demonstrate that the gains are robust to the choice of the OIE system. |
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| spellingShingle | Leveraging Open Information Extraction for More Robust Domain Transfer of Event Trigger Detection Dukić, David Gashteovski, Kiril Glavaš, Goran Šnajder, Jan Computation and Language Machine Learning Event detection is a crucial information extraction task in many domains, such as Wikipedia or news. The task typically relies on trigger detection (TD) -- identifying token spans in the text that evoke specific events. While the notion of triggers should ideally be universal across domains, domain transfer for TD from high- to low-resource domains results in significant performance drops. We address the problem of negative transfer in TD by coupling triggers between domains using subject-object relations obtained from a rule-based open information extraction (OIE) system. We demonstrate that OIE relations injected through multi-task training can act as mediators between triggers in different domains, enhancing zero- and few-shot TD domain transfer and reducing performance drops, in particular when transferring from a high-resource source domain (Wikipedia) to a low(er)-resource target domain (news). Additionally, we combine this improved transfer with masked language modeling on the target domain, observing further TD transfer gains. Finally, we demonstrate that the gains are robust to the choice of the OIE system. |
| title | Leveraging Open Information Extraction for More Robust Domain Transfer of Event Trigger Detection |
| topic | Computation and Language Machine Learning |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2305.14163 |