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Event extraction involves the detection and extraction of both the event triggers and corresponding event arguments. Existing systems often decompose event extraction into multiple subtasks, without considering their possible interactions.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-10-18 Huiling You , David Samuel , Samia Touileb , Lilja Øvrelid

Event argument extraction (EAE) aims to identify the arguments of an event and classify the roles that those arguments play. Despite great efforts made in prior work, there remain many challenges: (1) Data scarcity. (2) Capturing the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-10-08 Jie Ma , Shuai Wang , Rishita Anubhai , Miguel Ballesteros , Yaser Al-Onaizan

In document-level event extraction (DEE) task, event arguments always scatter across sentences (across-sentence issue) and multiple events may lie in one document (multi-event issue). In this paper, we argue that the relation information of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-06-08 Yuan Liang , Zhuoxuan Jiang , Di Yin , Bo Ren

Multimedia event extraction (M2E2) aims to predict triggers, ground arguments across text and images, and then assemble them into schema-consistent event records. Recent LLM-based approaches have shown strong potential for M2E2, but their…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-07 Hailong Chu , Hongbing Li , Yunlong Chu , Shutai Huang , Xingyue Zhang , Tinghe Yan , Jinsong Zhang , Shuo Zhang , Lei Li

Event Detection (ED) aims to recognize instances of specified types of event triggers in text. Different from English ED, Chinese ED suffers from the problem of word-trigger mismatch due to the uncertain word boundaries. Existing approaches…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-01-05 Shiyao Cui , Bowen Yu , Xin Cong , Tingwen Liu , Quangang Li , Jinqiao Shi

Event extraction (EE) is a critical direction in the field of information extraction, laying an important foundation for the construction of structured knowledge bases. EE from text has received ample research and attention for years, yet…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2024-08-26 Bin Wang , Meishan Zhang , Hao Fei , Yu Zhao , Bobo Li , Shengqiong Wu , Wei Ji , Min Zhang

Recent works have introduced Abstract Meaning Representation (AMR) for Document-level Event Argument Extraction (Doc-level EAE), since AMR provides a useful interpretation of complex semantic structures and helps to capture long-distance…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-05-31 Yuqing Yang , Qipeng Guo , Xiangkun Hu , Yue Zhang , Xipeng Qiu , Zheng Zhang

Document-level event extraction aims to extract structured event information from unstructured text. However, a single document often contains limited event information and the roles of different event arguments may be biased due to the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-08-27 Qiang Gao , Zixiang Meng , Bobo Li , Jun Zhou , Fei Li , Chong Teng , Donghong Ji

Event extraction (EE) is a crucial research task for promptly apprehending event information from massive textual data. With the rapid development of deep learning, EE based on deep learning technology has become a research hotspot.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-11-16 Qian Li , Jianxin Li , Jiawei Sheng , Shiyao Cui , Jia Wu , Yiming Hei , Hao Peng , Shu Guo , Lihong Wang , Amin Beheshti , Philip S. Yu

Legal practitioners often face a vast amount of documents. Lawyers, for instance, search for appropriate precedents favorable to their clients, while the number of legal precedents is ever-growing. Although legal search engines can assist…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-11-04 Wonseok Hwang , Saehee Eom , Hanuhl Lee , Hai Jin Park , Minjoon Seo

Document-level event argument extraction (DEAE) is essential for knowledge acquisition, aiming to extract participants of events from documents . In the zero-shot setting, existing methods employ LLMs to generate synthetic data to address…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-03-05 Guangjun Zhang , Hu Zhang , Yazhou Han , Yue Fan , Yuhang Shao , Ru Li , Hongye Tan

Event extraction requires high-quality expert human annotations, which are usually expensive. Therefore, learning a data-efficient event extraction model that can be trained with only a few labeled examples has become a crucial challenge.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-05-05 I-Hung Hsu , Kuan-Hao Huang , Elizabeth Boschee , Scott Miller , Prem Natarajan , Kai-Wei Chang , Nanyun Peng

Most previous studies of document-level event extraction mainly focus on building argument chains in an autoregressive way, which achieves a certain success but is inefficient in both training and inference. In contrast to the previous…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-10-05 Tong Zhu , Xiaoye Qu , Wenliang Chen , Zhefeng Wang , Baoxing Huai , Nicholas Jing Yuan , Min Zhang

Event extraction (EE) is one of the core information extraction tasks, whose purpose is to automatically identify and extract information about incidents and their actors from texts. This may be beneficial to several domains such as…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-29 Ali Balali , Masoud Asadpour , Ricardo Campos , Adam Jatowt

As a pivotal task in natural language processing, element extraction has gained significance in the legal domain. Extracting legal elements from judicial documents helps enhance interpretative and analytical capacities of legal cases, and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-11 Xue Zongyue , Liu Huanghai , Hu Yiran , Kong Kangle , Wang Chenlu , Liu Yun , Shen Weixing

Data is published on the web over time in great volumes, but majority of the data is unstructured, making it hard to understand and difficult to interpret. Information Extraction (IE) methods obtain structured information from unstructured…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-11-11 Ali Balali , Masoud Asadpour , Seyed Hossein Jafari

Document-level relation extraction is a challenging task which requires reasoning over multiple sentences in order to predict relations in a document. In this paper, we pro-pose a joint training frameworkE2GRE(Entity and Evidence Guided…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-08-28 Kevin Huang , Guangtao Wang , Tengyu Ma , Jing Huang

Event extraction (EE) is an essential task of information extraction, which aims to extract structured event information from unstructured text. Most prior work focuses on extracting flat events while neglecting overlapped or nested ones. A…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-09-07 Hu Cao , Jingye Li , Fangfang Su , Fei Li , Hao Fei , Shengqiong Wu , Bobo Li , Liang Zhao , Donghong Ji

Event extraction is challenging due to the complex structure of event records and the semantic gap between text and event. Traditional methods usually extract event records by decomposing the complex structure prediction task into multiple…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-06-18 Yaojie Lu , Hongyu Lin , Jin Xu , Xianpei Han , Jialong Tang , Annan Li , Le Sun , Meng Liao , Shaoyi Chen

Recent advancements in event argument extraction (EAE) involve incorporating useful auxiliary information into models during training and inference, such as retrieved instances and event templates. These methods face two challenges: (1) the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-05-09 Guanghui Wang , Dexi Liu , Jian-Yun Nie , Qizhi Wan , Rong Hu , Xiping Liu , Wanlong Liu , Jiaming Liu