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This makes the direction of event prediction often biased or wrong. In this paper, we propose a hierarchical event prediction model based on time series and prior knowledge. To ensure the accuracy of the event prediction, the model obtains the time-based event information and prior knowledge of events by Gated Recurrent Unit and Associated Link Network respectively. The semantic selective attention mechanism is used to fuse the time-based event information and prior knowledge, and finally generate predicted events. Experimental results on Chinese News datasets demonstrate that our model significantly outperforms the state-of-the-art methods, and increases the accuracy by 2.8%.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/fi12020039","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2020,2,18]],"date-time":"2020-02-18T10:10:25Z","timestamp":1582020625000},"page":"39","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":9,"title":["Hierarchical Gated Recurrent Unit with Semantic Attention for Event Prediction"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"12","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0001-9943-5757","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Zichun","family":"Su","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Computer Engineering and Science, Shanghai University, Shanghai 200444, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Jialin","family":"Jiang","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Computer Engineering and Science, Shanghai University, Shanghai 200444, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2020,2,14]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","first-page":"7343784","article-title":"Seismic Events Prediction Using Deep Temporal Convolution Networks","volume":"2019","author":"Geng","year":"2019","journal-title":"J. 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