Graph based Neural Networks for Event Factuality Predictionusing Syntactic and Semantic Structures
Abstract
Event factuality prediction (EFP) is the task of
assessing the degree to which an event mentioned in a sentence has happened. For this
task, both syntactic and semantic information
are crucial to identify the important context
words. The previous work for EFP has only
combined these information in a simple way
that cannot fully exploit their coordination. In
this work, we introduce a novel graph-based
neural network for EFP that can integrate the
semantic and syntactic information more effectively. Our experiments demonstrate the
advantage of the proposed model for EFP.