... cross-entity inference for event extraction (including training and testing processes) In the training process, for every entity type in the ACE training corpus, a clustering technique (CLUTO toolkit)3 ... extraction. In Proc. COLING/ACL 2006 Workshop on Annotating and Reasoning about Time and Events.Sydney, Aus-tralia. Jenny Rose Finkel, Trond Grenager and Christopher Manning. 2005. Incorporating ... By using simulated annealing in place of Viterbi de-coding in sequence models such as HMMs, CMMs, and CRFs, it is possible to incorporate non-local structure while preserving tractable inference....