WikiBio: a Semantic Resource for the Intersectional Analysis of Biographical Events

Marco Antonio Stranisci; Rossana Damiano; Enrico Mensa; Viviana Patti; Daniele Paolo Radicioni; Tommaso Caselli

doi:10.18653/v1/2023.acl-long.691

WikiBio: a Semantic Resource for the Intersectional Analysis of Biographical Events

Marco Antonio Stranisci^*, Rossana Damiano, Enrico Mensa, Viviana Patti, Daniele Paolo Radicioni, Tommaso Caselli

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Abstract

Biographical event detection is a relevant task for the exploration and comparison of the ways in which people's lives are told and represented. In this sense, it may support several applications in digital humanities and in works aimed at exploring bias about minoritized groups. Despite that, there are no corpora and models specifically designed for this task. In this paper we fill this gap by presenting a new corpus annotated for biographical event detection. The corpus, which includes 20 Wikipedia biographies, was compared with five existing corpora to train a model for the biographical event detection task. The model was able to detect all mentions of the target-entity in a biography with an F-score of 0.808 and the entity-related events with an F-score of 0.859. Finally, the model was used for performing an analysis of biases about women and non-Western people in Wikipedia biographies.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Proceedings of the 61st Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics
Subtitle of host publication	Long Papers
Editors	Anna Rogers, Jordan Boyd-Graber, Naoaki Okazaki
Publisher	Association for Computational Linguistics, ACL Anthology
Pages	12370-12384
Number of pages	15
ISBN (Electronic)	9781959429722
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.18653/v1/2023.acl-long.691
Publication status	Published - 2023
Event	61st Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, ACL 2023 - Toronto, Canada Duration: 9-Jul-2023 → 14-Jul-2023

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Name	Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics
Publisher	Association for Computational Linguistics
Volume	1
ISSN (Print)	0736-587X

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Conference	61st Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, ACL 2023
Country/Territory	Canada
City	Toronto
Period	09/07/2023 → 14/07/2023

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Stranisci, M. A., Damiano, R., Mensa, E., Patti, V., Radicioni, D. P., & Caselli, T. (2023). WikiBio: a Semantic Resource for the Intersectional Analysis of Biographical Events. In A. Rogers, J. Boyd-Graber, & N. Okazaki (Eds.), Proceedings of the 61st Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Long Papers (pp. 12370-12384). (Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics; Vol. 1). Association for Computational Linguistics, ACL Anthology. https://doi.org/10.18653/v1/2023.acl-long.691

Stranisci, Marco Antonio ; Damiano, Rossana ; Mensa, Enrico et al. / WikiBio : a Semantic Resource for the Intersectional Analysis of Biographical Events. Proceedings of the 61st Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Long Papers. editor / Anna Rogers ; Jordan Boyd-Graber ; Naoaki Okazaki. Association for Computational Linguistics, ACL Anthology, 2023. pp. 12370-12384 (Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics).

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Stranisci, MA, Damiano, R, Mensa, E, Patti, V, Radicioni, DP & Caselli, T 2023, WikiBio: a Semantic Resource for the Intersectional Analysis of Biographical Events. in A Rogers, J Boyd-Graber & N Okazaki (eds), Proceedings of the 61st Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Long Papers. Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, vol. 1, Association for Computational Linguistics, ACL Anthology, pp. 12370-12384, 61st Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, ACL 2023, Toronto, Canada, 09/07/2023. https://doi.org/10.18653/v1/2023.acl-long.691

WikiBio: a Semantic Resource for the Intersectional Analysis of Biographical Events. / Stranisci, Marco Antonio; Damiano, Rossana; Mensa, Enrico et al.
Proceedings of the 61st Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Long Papers. ed. / Anna Rogers; Jordan Boyd-Graber; Naoaki Okazaki. Association for Computational Linguistics, ACL Anthology, 2023. p. 12370-12384 (Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics; Vol. 1).

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Stranisci MA, Damiano R, Mensa E, Patti V, Radicioni DP, Caselli T. WikiBio: a Semantic Resource for the Intersectional Analysis of Biographical Events. In Rogers A, Boyd-Graber J, Okazaki N, editors, Proceedings of the 61st Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Long Papers. Association for Computational Linguistics, ACL Anthology. 2023. p. 12370-12384. (Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics). doi: 10.18653/v1/2023.acl-long.691

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