We then propose to rely only on these word representations to detect the event roles whereas, in most works (Riloff, 1996; Patwardhan and Riloff, 2007;<cite> Huang and Riloff, 2012a</cite>; Huang and Riloff, 2012b) , the role fillers are represented by a set of different features (raw words, their parts-ofspeech, syntactic or semantic roles in the sentence).