Submission titled Non-neural Structured Prediction for Event Detection from News in Indian Languages for EDNIL 2020 - Event Detection from News in Indian Languages
Citation
Shubhanshu Mishra, Non-neural Structured Prediction for Event Detection from News in Indian Languages, in: P. Mehta, T. Mandl, P. Majumder, M. Mitra (Eds.), Working Notes of FIRE 2020 - Forum for Information Retrieval Evaluation, Hyderabad, India, December 16-20, 2020, CEUR Workshop Proceedings, CEUR-WS.org, 2020
- Model both tasks as a single Sequence Tagging task
- Convert the data into the right format
- Model: N-gram + Regex features โ CRF
- Post-process single model predictions for each task submission
- Our approach performed best across all languages and across all tasks.
- The margin compared to the next best team was often >15% F1-score.