EDEN: A Dataset for Event Detection in Norwegian News

Samia Touileb, Jeanett Murstad, Petter Mæhlum, Lubos Steskal, Lilja Charlotte Storset, Huiling You, Lilja Øvrelid

Abstract: We present EDEN, the first Norwegian dataset annotated with event information at the sentence level, adapting the widely used ACE event schema to Norwegian. The paper describes the manual annotation of Norwegian text as well as transcribed speech in the news domain, together with inter-annotator agreement and discussions of relevant dataset statistics. We also present preliminary modeling results using a graph-based event parser. The resulting dataset will be freely available for download and use.