Event/Nonevent Noun Disambiguation Test Set

The dataset is designed to test classifiers’ ability to determine whether a nominal, in a context, has an eventive sense or not. The test dataset contains examples of eventive and non-eventive use of 3 ambiguous English nouns - "publication", "organization" and "construction". There are ~ 150 sentences per noun: ~75 sentences in which the noun has an eventive sense and ~75 sentences in which this is not the case. The examples are taken from internet news sites.