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SUMMARY:Understanding Event Processes in Natural Language - Muhao Chen
DTSTART:20201119T160000Z
DTEND:20201119T170000Z
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CONTACT:Qianchu Liu
DESCRIPTION:Human languages evolve to communicate about real-world events.
  Therefore\, understanding events plays a critical role in natural languag
 e understanding (NLU). A key challenge to this mission lies in the fact th
 at events are not just simple\, standalone predicates. Rather\, they are o
 ften described at different granularities\, form different temporal orders
 \, and directed by specific central goals in the context. This talk will p
 resent two parts of our recent studies on Event-centric NLU. In the first 
 part\, I will talk about how logically constrained learning can help teach
  machines to understand temporal relations\,\nmembership relations and cor
 eference of events (e.g.\, what should be the right process of “defend a
  dissertation”\, “taking courses”\, “publish papers” regarding 
 “earning a PhD”?). The second part will talk about how to teach machin
 es to understand the intents and central goals behind event processes (e.g
 \, do machines understand that “ making a dough”\, “adding toppings
 ”\, “preheating the oven” and “baking the dough” lead to “cook
 ing pizza”?). I will also briefly discuss some recent advances and open 
 problems in Event-centric NLU\, along with a system demonstration.
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