The invention relates to the technical field of computers, and provides an event trigger word recognition method and device and electronic equipment, and the event trigger word recognition method comprises the steps: obtaining a plurality of texts, carrying out word segmentation on the texts to form a word sequence, and determining themes of the texts according to event types of the texts; based on the theme, processing the text through a text theme generation model to obtain a vocabulary-theme distribution matrix, wherein the vocabularies are vocabularies in the word sequence, and the theme corresponds to the event type; and determining an event trigger word in the target text according to the vocabulary-theme distribution matrix. According to the invention, the event marking cost can bereduced, and the event trigger word identification accuracy and efficiency can be improved.