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Event Relation Reasoning Based on Event Knowledge Graph

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Knowledge Science, Engineering and Management (KSEM 2021)

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Natural language text contains numerous event-based, and a large number of semantic relations exist between events. Event relations express the event rationality logic and reveal the evolution process of events, which is of great significance for machines to understand the text and the construction of event-based knowledge base. Event relation discovery includes extracting event relation from text and obtaining event relation by reasoning. Event relation extraction focuses on the recognition of explicit relations, while event relation reasoning can also discover implicit relations, which is more meaningful and more difficult. In this paper, we propose a model combining LSTM and attention mechanism for event relation reasoning, which uses the attention mechanism to dynamically generate event sequence representation according to the type of relation and predicts the event relation. The macro-F1 value in the experimental result reaches 63.71%, which shows that the model can effectively discover implicit event-event relation.

Supported by the National Key Research and Development Program of China (No. 2017YFE0117500), the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 61991410), the research project of the 54th Research Institute of China Electronics Technology Group (No. SKX192010019).

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Tang, T., Liu, W., Li, W., Wu, J., Ren, H. (2021). Event Relation Reasoning Based on Event Knowledge Graph. In: Qiu, H., Zhang, C., Fei, Z., Qiu, M., Kung, SY. (eds) Knowledge Science, Engineering and Management. KSEM 2021. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 12815. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-82136-4_40

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