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We \u0080rst discover visual pa\u008aerns from large-scale textimage<br \/>\npairs in a weakly-supervised manner and then propose a<br \/>\nmultimodal event extraction algorithm where the event extractor is<br \/>\njointly trained with textual features and visual pa\u008aerns. Extensive<br \/>\nexperimental results on benchmark data sets demonstrate that the<br \/>\nproposed multimodal EE method can achieve signi\u0080cantly be\u008aer<br \/>\nperformance on event extraction: absolute 7.1% F-score gain on<br \/>\nevent trigger labeling and 8.5% F-score gain on event argument<br \/>\nlabeling.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In this paper, we focus on improving Event Extraction (EE) by incorporating visual knowledge with words and phrases from text documents. 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