EventPlus: A Temporal Event Understanding Pipeline
This provides a convenient tool for users needing event and temporal annotations in documents, but it is incremental as it integrates existing components.
The authors tackled the problem of temporal event understanding by developing EventPlus, a pipeline that integrates multiple state-of-the-art components for event detection and temporal relation extraction, resulting in a tool that provides annotations for user-provided documents and can be adapted to domains like biomedicine.
We present EventPlus, a temporal event understanding pipeline that integrates various state-of-the-art event understanding components including event trigger and type detection, event argument detection, event duration and temporal relation extraction. Event information, especially event temporal knowledge, is a type of common sense knowledge that helps people understand how stories evolve and provides predictive hints for future events. EventPlus as the first comprehensive temporal event understanding pipeline provides a convenient tool for users to quickly obtain annotations about events and their temporal information for any user-provided document. Furthermore, we show EventPlus can be easily adapted to other domains (e.g., biomedical domain). We make EventPlus publicly available to facilitate event-related information extraction and downstream applications.