WikiBio: a Semantic Resource for the Intersectional Analysis of Biographical Events
Published in Proceedings of the 61th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers), 2023
Recommended citation: Marco Antonio Stranisci, Rossana Damiano, Enrico Mensa, Viviana Patti, Daniele Radicioni, and Tommaso Caselli. 2023. WikiBio: a Semantic Resource for the Intersectional Analysis of Biographical Events. In Proceedings of the 61th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers), Toronto, Canada. Association for Computational Linguistics. in press
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.
Recommended citation: Marco Antonio Stranisci, Rossana Damiano, Enrico Mensa, Viviana Patti, Daniele Radicioni, and Tommaso Caselli. 2023. WikiBio: a Semantic Resource for the Intersectional Analysis of Biographical Events. In Proceedings of the 61th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers), Toronto, Canada. Association for Computational Linguistics.