Synergizing Unsupervised Episode Detection with LLMs for Large-Scale News Events

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Autores principales: Kargupta, Priyanka, Zhang, Yunyi, Jiao, Yizhu, Ouyang, Siru, Han, Jiawei
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Publicado: 2024
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author Kargupta, Priyanka
Zhang, Yunyi
Jiao, Yizhu
Ouyang, Siru
Han, Jiawei
author_facet Kargupta, Priyanka
Zhang, Yunyi
Jiao, Yizhu
Ouyang, Siru
Han, Jiawei
contents State-of-the-art automatic event detection struggles with interpretability and adaptability to evolving large-scale key events -- unlike episodic structures, which excel in these areas. Often overlooked, episodes represent cohesive clusters of core entities performing actions at a specific time and location; a partially ordered sequence of episodes can represent a key event. This paper introduces a novel task, episode detection, which identifies episodes within a news corpus of key event articles. Detecting episodes poses unique challenges, as they lack explicit temporal or locational markers and cannot be merged using semantic similarity alone. While large language models (LLMs) can aid with these reasoning difficulties, they suffer with long contexts typical of news corpora. To address these challenges, we introduce EpiMine, an unsupervised framework that identifies a key event's candidate episodes by leveraging natural episodic partitions in articles, estimated through shifts in discriminative term combinations. These candidate episodes are more cohesive and representative of true episodes, synergizing with LLMs to better interpret and refine them into final episodes. We apply EpiMine to our three diverse, real-world event datasets annotated at the episode level, where it achieves a 59.2% average gain across all metrics compared to baselines.
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spellingShingle Synergizing Unsupervised Episode Detection with LLMs for Large-Scale News Events
Kargupta, Priyanka
Zhang, Yunyi
Jiao, Yizhu
Ouyang, Siru
Han, Jiawei
Computation and Language
State-of-the-art automatic event detection struggles with interpretability and adaptability to evolving large-scale key events -- unlike episodic structures, which excel in these areas. Often overlooked, episodes represent cohesive clusters of core entities performing actions at a specific time and location; a partially ordered sequence of episodes can represent a key event. This paper introduces a novel task, episode detection, which identifies episodes within a news corpus of key event articles. Detecting episodes poses unique challenges, as they lack explicit temporal or locational markers and cannot be merged using semantic similarity alone. While large language models (LLMs) can aid with these reasoning difficulties, they suffer with long contexts typical of news corpora. To address these challenges, we introduce EpiMine, an unsupervised framework that identifies a key event's candidate episodes by leveraging natural episodic partitions in articles, estimated through shifts in discriminative term combinations. These candidate episodes are more cohesive and representative of true episodes, synergizing with LLMs to better interpret and refine them into final episodes. We apply EpiMine to our three diverse, real-world event datasets annotated at the episode level, where it achieves a 59.2% average gain across all metrics compared to baselines.
title Synergizing Unsupervised Episode Detection with LLMs for Large-Scale News Events
topic Computation and Language
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2408.04873