A crowdsourced database of event sequence descriptions for the acquisition of high-quality script knowledge
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2016Author
Lilian DA Wanzare, Alessandra Zarcone, Stefan Thater, Manfred Pinkal
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Scripts are standardized event sequences describing typical everyday activities, which play an important role in the computational modeling of cognitive abilities (in particular for natural language processing). We present a large-scale crowdsourced collection of explicit
linguistic descriptions of script-specific event sequences (40 scenarios with 100 sequences each). The corpus is enriched with crowdsourced alignment annotation on a subset of the event descriptions, to be used in future work as seed data for automatic alignment of
event descriptions (for example via clustering). The event descriptions to be aligned were chosen among those expected to have the
strongest corrective effect on the clustering algorithm. The alignment annotation was evaluated against a gold standard of expert annotators. The resulting database of partially-aligned script-event descriptions provides a sound empirical basis for inducing high-quality
script knowledge, as well as for any task involving alignment and paraphrase detection of events.