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Event argument extraction (EAE) has been well studied at the sentence level but under-explored at the document level. In this paper, we study to capture event arguments that actually spread across sentences in documents. Prior works usually…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-05-29 Xianjun Yang , Yujie Lu , Linda Petzold

Information Extraction (IE) refers to automatically extracting structured relation tuples from unstructured texts. Common IE solutions, including Relation Extraction (RE) and open IE systems, can hardly handle cross-sentence tuples, and are…

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This report argues that, even in the simplest cases, IE is an ontology-driven process. It is not a mere text filtering method based on simple pattern matching and keywords, because the extracted pieces of texts are interpreted with respect…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2016-08-16 Claire Nédellec , Adeline Nazarenko

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

The task of event extraction (EE) aims to find the events and event-related argument information from the text and represent them in a structured format. Most previous works try to solve the problem by separately identifying multiple…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-11-23 Alapan Kuila , Sudeshan Sarkar

Extracting structured event knowledge, including event triggers and corresponding arguments, from military texts is fundamental to many applications, such as intelligence analysis and decision assistance. However, event extraction in the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-04-19 Mengna Zhu , Zijie Xu , Kaisheng Zeng , Kaiming Xiao , Mao Wang , Wenjun Ke , Hongbin Huang

With the advancement of multimedia technologies, news documents and user-generated content are often represented as multiple modalities, making Multimedia Event Extraction (MEE) an increasingly important challenge. However, recent MEE…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-10-03 Philipp Seeberger , Dominik Wagner , Korbinian Riedhammer

With the rapid development of large language models (LLMs), more and more researchers have paid attention to information extraction based on LLMs. However, there are still some spaces to improve in the existing related methods. First,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-03-24 Jiang Liu , Ge Qiu , Hao Fei , Dongdong Xie , Jinbo Li , Fei Li , Chong Teng , Donghong Ji

Recent works in Event Argument Extraction (EAE) have focused on improving model generalizability to cater to new events and domains. However, standard benchmarking datasets like ACE and ERE cover less than 40 event types and 25…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-06-02 Tanmay Parekh , I-Hung Hsu , Kuan-Hao Huang , Kai-Wei Chang , Nanyun Peng

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

Event extraction has gained considerable interest due to its wide-ranging applications. However, recent studies draw attention to evaluation issues, suggesting that reported scores may not accurately reflect the true performance. In this…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-06-07 Kuan-Hao Huang , I-Hung Hsu , Tanmay Parekh , Zhiyu Xie , Zixuan Zhang , Premkumar Natarajan , Kai-Wei Chang , Nanyun Peng , Heng Ji

Event Argument extraction refers to the task of extracting structured information from unstructured text for a particular event of interest. The existing works exhibit poor capabilities to extract causal event arguments like Reason and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-05-04 Debanjana Kar , Sudeshna Sarkar , Pawan Goyal

Event extraction (EE) is the task of identifying interested event mentions from text. Conventional efforts mainly focus on the supervised setting. However, these supervised models cannot generalize to event types out of the pre-defined…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-11-15 Hongming Zhang , Wenlin Yao , Dong Yu

Structural extraction of events within discourse is critical since it avails a deeper understanding of communication patterns and behavior trends. Event argument extraction (EAE), at the core of event-centric understanding, is the task of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-03-21 Xinliang Frederick Zhang , Carter Blum , Temma Choji , Shalin Shah , Alakananda Vempala

Extracting the reported events from text is one of the key research themes in natural language processing. This process includes several tasks such as event detection, argument extraction, role labeling. As one of the most important topics…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-10-11 Viet Dac Lai

While text-based event extraction has been an active research area and has seen successful application in many domains, extracting semantic events from speech directly is an under-explored problem. In this paper, we introduce the Speech…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-01-30 Jingqi Kang , Tongtong Wu , Jinming Zhao , Guitao Wang , Guilin Qi , Yuan-Fang Li , Gholamreza Haffari

Document-level Event Extraction (DEE) is particularly tricky due to the two challenges it poses: scattering-arguments and multi-events. The first challenge means that arguments of one event record could reside in different sentences in the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-02-08 Shiyao Cui , Xin Cong , Bowen Yu , Tingwen Liu , Yucheng Wang , Jinqiao Shi

Event extraction (EE) is a crucial task aiming at extracting events from texts, which includes two subtasks: event detection (ED) and event argument extraction (EAE). In this paper, we check the reliability of EE evaluations and identify…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-06-16 Hao Peng , Xiaozhi Wang , Feng Yao , Kaisheng Zeng , Lei Hou , Juanzi Li , Zhiyuan Liu , Weixing Shen

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

Open Information Extraction (OpenIE) aims to extract structured relational tuples (subject, relation, object) from sentences and plays critical roles for many downstream NLP applications. Existing solutions perform extraction at sentence…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-05-12 Kuicai Dong , Yilin Zhao , Aixin Sun , Jung-Jae Kim , Xiaoli Li