This is the source code for paper "Nugget Proposal Networks for Chinese Event Detection" in ACL2018.

• Tensorflow >= 1.2.0

First, please unzip the word2vec embeddings in "src/"

• gzip -d src/word_word2vec.dat.gz
• gzip -d src/char_word2vec.dat.gz

Then enter src dir, run the program like

• python NPN_TS.py kbp_config.cfg

Hyperparameters in our paper are saved in configure file "kbp_config.cfg" or "ace_config.cfg".

Please cite:

• Hongyu Lin, Yaojie Lu, Xianpei Han, Le Sun. Nugget Proposal Networks for Chinese Event Detection. In Proceedings of the 56th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics.

@InProceedings{lin-Etal:2018:ACL2018nugget,
  author    = {Lin, Hongyu and Lu, Yaojie and Han, Xianpei and Sun, Le},
  title     = {Nugget Proposal Networks for Chinese Event Detection},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the 56th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics},
  month     = {July},
  year      = {2018},
  location   = {Melbourne, Australia},
  publisher = {Association for Computational Linguistics},
}

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• [email protected]