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+# QA-for-Event-Extraction
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+## Model description
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+This is a QA model as part of the event extraction system in the ACL2021 paper: [Zero-shot Event Extraction via Transfer Learning: Challenges and Insights](https://aclanthology.org/2021.acl-short.42/). The pretrained architecture is [roberta-large](https://huggingface.co/roberta-large) and the fine-tuning data is [QAMR](https://github.com/uwnlp/qamr).
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+## Usage
+- To use the QA model independently, follow the [huggingface documentation on AutoModelForQuestionAnswering](https://huggingface.co/transformers/task_summary.html?highlight=automodelforquestionanswering#extractive-question-answering).
+- To use it as part of the event extraction system, please check out [our Github repo](https://github.com/veronica320/Zeroshot-Event-Extraction).
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+
+### BibTeX entry and citation info
+```
+@inproceedings{lyu-etal-2021-zero,
+    title = "Zero-shot Event Extraction via Transfer Learning: {C}hallenges and Insights",
+    author = "Lyu, Qing  and
+      Zhang, Hongming  and
+      Sulem, Elior  and
+      Roth, Dan",
+    booktitle = "Proceedings of the 59th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics and the 11th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing (Volume 2: Short Papers)",
+    month = aug,
+    year = "2021",
+    address = "Online",
+    publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
+    url = "https://aclanthology.org/2021.acl-short.42",
+    doi = "10.18653/v1/2021.acl-short.42",
+    pages = "322--332",
+    abstract = "Event extraction has long been a challenging task, addressed mostly with supervised methods that require expensive annotation and are not extensible to new event ontologies. In this work, we explore the possibility of zero-shot event extraction by formulating it as a set of Textual Entailment (TE) and/or Question Answering (QA) queries (e.g. {``}A city was attacked{''} entails {``}There is an attack{''}), exploiting pretrained TE/QA models for direct transfer. On ACE-2005 and ERE, our system achieves acceptable results, yet there is still a large gap from supervised approaches, showing that current QA and TE technologies fail in transferring to a different domain. To investigate the reasons behind the gap, we analyze the remaining key challenges, their respective impact, and possible improvement directions.",
+}
+```