Image enhanced event detection in news articles

• Main Authors: TONG, Meihan, WANG, Shuai, CAO, Yixin, XU, Bin, LI, Juaizi, HOU, Lei, CHUA, Tat-Seng
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2020
• Subjects: Databases and Information Systems; Graphics and Human Computer Interfaces
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/sis_research/7456; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/sis_research/article/8459/viewcontent/6437_Article_Text_9662_1_10_20200517.pdf
• Institution: Singapore Management University

Event detection is a crucial and challenging sub-task of event extraction, which suffers from a severe ambiguity issue of trigger words. Existing works mainly focus on using textual context information, while there naturally exist many images accompanied by news articles that are yet to be explored....