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Event extraction for the clinical domain is an under-explored research area. The lack of training data along with the high volume of domain-specific terminologies with vague entity boundaries makes the task especially challenging. In this…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-05-26 Mingyu Derek Ma , Alexander K. Taylor , Wei Wang , Nanyun Peng

The work presented in this master thesis consists of extracting a set of events from texts written in natural language. For this purpose, we have based ourselves on the basic notions of the information extraction as well as the open…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-07-03 Sihem Sahnoun

We study the problem of event extraction from text data, which requires both detecting target event types and their arguments. Typically, both the event detection and argument detection subtasks are formulated as supervised sequence…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-10-23 Rui Feng , Jie Yuan , Chao Zhang

Events are essential components of speech and texts, describing the changes in the state of entities. The event extraction task aims to identify and classify events and find their participants according to event schemas. Manually predefined…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-03-20 Haochen Li , Di Geng

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 extraction is essential for event understanding and analysis. It supports tasks such as document summarization and decision-making in emergency scenarios. However, existing event extraction approaches have limitations: (1)…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-24 Praval Sharma

Recent mainstream event argument extraction methods process each event in isolation, resulting in inefficient inference and ignoring the correlations among multiple events. To address these limitations, here we propose a multiple-event…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-06-18 Wanlong Liu , Li Zhou , Dingyi Zeng , Yichen Xiao , Shaohuan Cheng , Chen Zhang , Grandee Lee , Malu Zhang , Wenyu Chen

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

Event argument extraction (EAE) identifies event arguments and their specific roles for a given event. Recent advancement in generation-based EAE models has shown great performance and generalizability over classification-based models.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-05-29 I-Hung Hsu , Zhiyu Xie , Kuan-Hao Huang , Prem Natarajan , Nanyun Peng

To understand a document with multiple events, event-event relation extraction (ERE) emerges as a crucial task, aiming to discern how natural events temporally or structurally associate with each other. To achieve this goal, our work…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-12-20 Peixin Huang , Xiang Zhao , Minghao Hu , Zhen Tan , Weidong Xiao

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 is a fundamental task for natural language processing. Finding the roles of event arguments like event participants is essential for event extraction. However, doing so for real-life event descriptions is challenging…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-12-23 Qian Li , Hao Peng , Jianxin Li , Jia Wu , Yuanxing Ning , Lihong Wang , Philip S. Yu , Zheng Wang

Event extraction (EE), which acquires structural event knowledge from texts, can be divided into two sub-tasks: event type classification and element extraction (namely identifying triggers and arguments under different role patterns). As…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-08-19 Qian Li , Shu Guo , Jia Wu , Jianxin Li , Jiawei Sheng , Lihong Wang , Xiaohan Dong , Hao Peng

It is crucial to understand a specific domain by events. Extensive event extraction research has been conducted in many domains such as news, finance, and biology. However, event extraction in scientific domain is still insufficiently…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-28 Yi-Fan Lu , Xian-Ling Mao , Bo Wang , Xiao Liu , Heyan Huang

Modern high-stakes systems, such as healthcare or robotics, often generate vast streaming event sequences. Our goal is to design an efficient, plug-and-play tool to elicit logic tree-based explanations from Large Language Models (LLMs) to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-01 Zitao Song , Chao Yang , Chaojie Wang , Bo An , Shuang Li

Event argument extraction has long been studied as a sequential prediction problem with extractive-based methods, tackling each argument in isolation. Although recent work proposes generation-based methods to capture cross-argument…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-11-15 Xinya Du , Heng Ji

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

Few works in the literature of event extraction have gone beyond individual sentences to make extraction decisions. This is problematic when the information needed to recognize an event argument is spread across multiple sentences. We argue…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-05-15 Xinya Du , Claire Cardie

Event mentions in text correspond to real-world events of varying degrees of granularity. The task of subevent detection aims to resolve this granularity issue, recognizing the membership of multi-granular events in event complexes. Since…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-09-15 Haoyu Wang , Hongming Zhang , Muhao Chen , Dan Roth

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