Ahrendt, Simon; Demberg, Vera
Improving event prediction by representing script participants
Proceedings of the 2016 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies, Association for Computational Linguistics, pp. 546-551, San Diego, California, 2016.
Automatically learning script knowledge has proved difficult, with previous work not or just barely beating a most-frequent baseline. Script knowledge is a type of world knowledge which can however be useful for various task in NLP and psycholinguistic modelling. We here propose a model that includes participant information (i.e., knowledge about which participants are relevant for a script) and show, on the Dinners from Hell corpus as well as the InScript corpus, that this knowledge helps us to significantly improve prediction performance on the narrative cloze task.