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The task of information extraction (IE) is to extract structured knowledge from text. However, it is often not straightforward to utilize IE output due to the mismatch between the IE ontology and the downstream application needs. We propose…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-10-31 Yizhu Jiao , Sha Li , Sizhe Zhou , Heng Ji , Jiawei Han

Information extraction(IE) has always been one of the essential tasks of NLP. Moreover, one of the most critical application scenarios of information extraction is the information extraction of resumes. Constructed text is obtained by…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-02-07 Chengguang Gan , Tatsunori Mori

Extracting structured and grounded fact triples from raw text is a fundamental task in Information Extraction (IE). Existing IE datasets are typically collected from Wikipedia articles, using hyperlinks to link entities to the Wikidata…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-06-16 Chenxi Whitehouse , Clara Vania , Alham Fikri Aji , Christos Christodoulopoulos , Andrea Pierleoni

We provide a detailed overview of the various approaches that were proposed to date to solve the task of Open Information Extraction. We present the major challenges that such systems face, show the evolution of the suggested approaches…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-06-15 Christina Niklaus , Matthias Cetto , André Freitas , Siegfried Handschuh

Document-level information extraction (IE) tasks have recently begun to be revisited in earnest using the end-to-end neural network techniques that have been successful on their sentence-level IE counterparts. Evaluation of the approaches,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-09-16 Aliva Das , Xinya Du , Barry Wang , Kejian Shi , Jiayuan Gu , Thomas Porter , Claire Cardie

Information Extraction (IE) aims to extract structural information from unstructured texts. In practice, long-tailed distributions caused by the selection bias of a dataset, may lead to incorrect correlations, also known as spurious…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-09-14 Guoshun Nan , Jiaqi Zeng , Rui Qiao , Zhijiang Guo , Wei Lu

Learning template based information extraction from documents is a crucial yet difficult task. Prior template-based IE approaches assume foreknowledge of the domain templates; however, real-world IE do not have pre-defined schemas and it is…

Open Information Extraction (Open IE) is the task of extracting structured information from textual documents, independent of domain. While traditional Open IE methods were based on unsupervised approaches, recently, with the emergence of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-01-22 Marlo Souza , Bruno Cabral , Daniela Claro , Lais Salvador

We build a reference for the task of Open Information Extraction, on five documents. We tentatively resolve a number of issues that arise, including inference and granularity. We seek to better pinpoint the requirements for the task. We…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-08-02 William Léchelle , Fabrizio Gotti , Philippe Langlais

Biomedical information extraction (BioIE) is important to many applications, including clinical decision support, integrative biology, and pharmacovigilance, and therefore it has been an active research. Unlike existing reviews covering a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2016-06-28 Feifan Liu , Jinying Chen , Abhyuday Jagannatha , Hong Yu

Explaining the predictions of AI models is paramount in safety-critical applications, such as in legal or medical domains. One form of explanation for a prediction is an extractive rationale, i.e., a subset of features of an instance that…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-12-21 Lei Sha , Oana-Maria Camburu , Thomas Lukasiewicz

Open information extraction (OpenIE) aims to extract the schema-free triplets in the form of (\emph{subject}, \emph{predicate}, \emph{object}) from a given sentence. Compared with general information extraction (IE), OpenIE poses more…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-01-23 Zhen Chen , Jingping Liu , Deqing Yang , Yanghua Xiao , Huimin Xu , Zongyu Wang , Rui Xie , Yunsen Xian

Information Extraction (IE) aims to extract structural knowledge (e.g., entities, relations, events) from natural language texts, which brings challenges to existing methods due to task-specific schemas and complex text expressions. Code,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-11-07 Yucan Guo , Zixuan Li , Xiaolong Jin , Yantao Liu , Yutao Zeng , Wenxuan Liu , Xiang Li , Pan Yang , Long Bai , Jiafeng Guo , Xueqi Cheng

Previous studies in Open Information Extraction (Open IE) are mainly based on extraction patterns. They manually define patterns or automatically learn them from a large corpus. However, these approaches are limited when grasping the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2016-05-26 Byungsoo Kim , Hwanjo Yu , Gary Geunbae Lee

Information Extraction (IE) aims to extract structured information from heterogeneous sources. IE from natural language texts include sub-tasks such as Named Entity Recognition (NER), Relation Extraction (RE), and Event Extraction (EE).…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-11-15 Xuming Hu , Shiao Meng , Chenwei Zhang , Xiangli Yang , Lijie Wen , Irwin King , Philip S. Yu

Large language models can perform well on general natural language tasks, but their effectiveness is still suboptimal for information extraction (IE). Recent works indicate that the main reason lies in the lack of extensive data on IE…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-07-30 Honghao Gui , Shuofei Qiao , Jintian Zhang , Hongbin Ye , Mengshu Sun , Lei Liang , Jeff Z. Pan , Huajun Chen , Ningyu Zhang

Event argument extraction (EAE) is an important task for information extraction to discover specific argument roles. In this study, we cast EAE as a question-based cloze task and empirically analyze fixed discrete token template…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-01-26 Hongbin Ye , Ningyu Zhang , Zhen Bi , Shumin Deng , Chuanqi Tan , Hui Chen , Fei Huang , Huajun Chen

Information extraction (IE) is a fundamental area in natural language processing where prompting large language models (LLMs), even with in-context examples, cannot defeat small LMs tuned on very small IE datasets. We observe that IE tasks,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-04-02 Letian Peng , Zilong Wang , Feng Yao , Zihan Wang , Jingbo Shang

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

We present an approach for recursively splitting and rephrasing complex English sentences into a novel semantic hierarchy of simplified sentences, with each of them presenting a more regular structure that may facilitate a wide variety of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-06-05 Christina Niklaus , Matthias Cetto , Andre Freitas , Siegfried Handschuh