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Despite achieving state-of-the-art accuracy on temporal ordering of events, neural models showcase significant gaps in performance. Our work seeks to fill one of these gaps by leveraging an under-explored dimension of textual semantics:…

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Event Causality Identification (ECI), which aims to detect whether a causality relation exists between two given textual events, is an important task for event causality understanding. However, the ECI task ignores crucial event structure…

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Entity and relation extraction is a key task in information extraction, where the output can be used for downstream NLP tasks. Existing approaches for entity and relation extraction tasks mainly focus on the English corpora and ignore other…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-01-12 Zixiang Wang , Jian Yang , Tongliang Li , Jiaheng Liu , Ying Mo , Jiaqi Bai , Longtao He , Zhoujun Li

The task of event extraction has long been investigated in a supervised learning paradigm, which is bound by the number and the quality of the training instances. Existing training data must be manually generated through a combination of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-12-12 Ying Zeng , Yansong Feng , Rong Ma , Zheng Wang , Rui Yan , Chongde Shi , Dongyan Zhao

Understanding temporal relationships and accurately reconstructing the event timeline is important for case law analysis, compliance monitoring, and legal summarization. However, existing benchmarks lack specialized language evaluation,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-11-06 Claire Barale , Leslie Barrett , Vikram Sunil Bajaj , Michael Rovatsos

We present an approach for summarization from multiple documents which report on events that evolve through time, taking into account the different document sources. We distinguish the evolution of an event into linear and non-linear.…

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We are presenting a set of multilingual text analysis tools that can help analysts in any field to explore large document collections quickly in order to determine whether the documents contain information of interest, and to find the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Camelia Ignat , Bruno Pouliquen , Ralf Steinberger , Tomaz Erjavec

Retrieving images from natural language descriptions is a core task at the intersection of computer vision and natural language processing, with wide-ranging applications in search engines, media archiving, and digital content management.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-25 Dao Sy Duy Minh , Huynh Trung Kiet , Nguyen Lam Phu Quy , Phu-Hoa Pham , Tran Chi Nguyen

Timeline generation is of great significance for a comprehensive understanding of the development of events over time. Its goal is to organize news chronologically, which helps to identify patterns and trends that may be obscured when…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-02-12 Xiaochen Liu , Yanan Zhang

Event extraction (EE) is a fundamental task in natural language processing (NLP) that involves identifying and extracting event information from unstructured text. Effective EE in real-world scenarios requires two key steps: selecting…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-05-14 Sheng Liang , Hang Lv , Zhihao Wen , Yaxiong Wu , Yongyue Zhang , Hao Wang , Yong Liu

We consider asynchronous message-passing systems in which some links are timely and processes may crash. Each run defines a timeliness graph among correct processes: (p; q) is an edge of the timeliness graph if the link from p to q is…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2015-05-18 Carole Delporte-Gallet , Stéphane Devismes , Hugues Fauconnier , Mikel Larrea

Event log analysis is an important task that security professionals undertake. Event logs record key information on activities that occur on computing devices, and due to the substantial number of events generated, they consume a large…

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Retrieval and recommendation are two essential tasks in modern search tools. This paper introduces a novel retrieval-reranking framework leveraging Large Language Models (LLMs) to enhance the spatiotemporal and semantic associated mining…

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Determining temporal relations (e.g., before or after) between events has been a challenging natural language understanding task, partly due to the difficulty to generate large amounts of high-quality training data. Consequently, neural…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-09-04 Qiang Ning , Sanjay Subramanian , Dan Roth

We introduce an advanced information extraction pipeline to automatically process very large collections of unstructured textual data for the purpose of investigative journalism. The pipeline serves as a new input processor for the upcoming…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-09-17 Gregor Wiedemann , Seid Muhie Yimam , Chris Biemann

We tackle the task of automatically discriminating between human and machine translations. As opposed to most previous work, we perform experiments in a multilingual setting, considering multiple languages and multilingual pretrained…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-06-01 Malina Chichirau , Rik van Noord , Antonio Toral

Cities have been a thriving place for citizens over the centuries due to their complex infrastructure. The emergence of the Cyber-Physical-Social Systems (CPSS) and context-aware technologies boost a growing interest in analysing,…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2017-05-30 Nazli Farajidavar , Sefki Kolozali , Payam Barnaghi

Causal knowledge extraction is the task of extracting relevant causes and effects from text by detecting the causal relation. Although this task is important for language understanding and knowledge discovery, recent works in this domain…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-08-09 Anik Saha , Oktie Hassanzadeh , Alex Gittens , Jian Ni , Kavitha Srinivas , Bulent Yener

Event extraction is an important natural language processing (NLP) task of identifying events in an unstructured text. Although a plethora of works deal with event extraction from new articles, clinical text etc., only a few works focus on…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-02-27 Chaitanya Kirti , Ayon Chattopadhyay , Ashish Anand , Prithwijit Guha

Multivariate time series classification is a task with increasing importance due to the proliferation of new problems in various fields (economy, health, energy, transport, crops, etc.) where a large number of information sources are…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-09-09 Francisco J. Baldán , José M. Benítez