Cross-media Structured Common Space for Multimedia Event Extraction

05/05/2020

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by   Manling Li, et al.

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University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

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Columbia University

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We introduce a new task, MultiMedia Event Extraction (M2E2), which aims to extract events and their arguments from multimedia documents. We develop the first benchmark and collect a dataset of 245 multimedia news articles with extensively annotated events and arguments. We propose a novel method, Weakly Aligned Structured Embedding (WASE), that encodes structured representations of semantic information from textual and visual data into a common embedding space. The structures are aligned across modalities by employing a weakly supervised training strategy, which enables exploiting available resources without explicit cross-media annotation. Compared to uni-modal state-of-the-art methods, our approach achieves 4.0 event argument role labeling and visual event extraction. Compared to state-of-the-art multimedia unstructured representations, we achieve 8.3 5.0 labeling, respectively. By utilizing images, we extract 21.4 mentions than traditional text-only methods.