EventstructuresarecentralinLinguisticsandArtificialIntelligenceresearch:peoplecaneasilyrefertochangesintheworld,identifytheirparticipants,distinguishrelevantinformation,andhaveexpectationsofwhatcanhappennext.Partofthisprocessisbasedonmechanismssimilartonarratives,whichareattheheartofinformationsharing.Butitremainsdifficulttoautomaticallydetecteventsorautomaticallyconstructstoriesfromsucheventrepresentations.Thisbookexploreshowtohandletoday’smassivenewsstreamsandprovidesmultidimensional,multimodal,anddistributedapproaches,likeautomateddeeplearning,tocaptureeventsandnarrativestructuresinvolvedina’story’.Thisoverviewofthecurrentstate-of-the-artoneventextraction,temporalandcasualrelations,andstorylineextractionaimstoestablishanewmultidisciplinaryresearchcommunitywithacommonterminologyandresearchagenda.Graduatestudentsandresearchersinnaturallanguageprocessing,computationallinguistics,andmediastudieswillbenefitfromthisbook.
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