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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

Event co-occurrences have been proved effective for event extraction (EE) in previous studies, but have not been considered for event argument extraction (EAE) recently. In this paper, we try to fill this gap between EE research and EAE…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-06-02 Yuxin He , Jingyue Hu , Buzhou Tang

Prompt learning is an effective paradigm that bridges gaps between the pre-training tasks and the corresponding downstream applications. Approaches based on this paradigm have achieved great transcendent results in various applications.…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-09-26 Zhigang Kan , Linhui Feng , Zhangyue Yin , Linbo Qiao , Xipeng Qiu , Dongsheng Li

The success of sites such as ACLED and Our World in Data have demonstrated the massive utility of extracting events in structured formats from large volumes of textual data in the form of news, social media, blogs and discussion forums.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-04-07 Sneha Mehta , Huzefa Rangwala , Naren Ramakrishnan

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

Biomedical Event Extraction (BEE) is a challenging task that involves modeling complex relationships between fine-grained entities in biomedical text. BEE has traditionally been formulated as a classification problem. With recent…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-02-24 Haohan Yuan , Siu Cheung Hui , Haopeng Zhang

In recent years, there is a surge of generation-based information extraction work, which allows a more direct use of pre-trained language models and efficiently captures output dependencies. However, previous generative methods using…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-11-10 Qipeng Guo , Yuqing Yang , Hang Yan , Xipeng Qiu , Zheng Zhang

Document-level event extraction aims to recognize event information from a whole piece of article. Existing methods are not effective due to two challenges of this task: a) the target event arguments are scattered across sentences; b) the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-06-01 Runxin Xu , Tianyu Liu , Lei Li , Baobao Chang

Event detection (ED), aiming to detect events from texts and categorize them, is vital to understanding actual happenings in real life. However, mainstream event detection models require high-quality expert human annotations of triggers,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-08-23 Jiachen Zhao , Haiqin Yang

Event extraction is typically modeled as a multi-class classification problem where event types and argument roles are treated as atomic symbols. These approaches are usually limited to a set of pre-defined types. We propose a novel event…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-03-23 Sijia Wang , Mo Yu , Shiyu Chang , Lichao Sun , Lifu Huang

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 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

Event argument extraction identifies arguments for predefined event roles in text. Existing work evaluates this task with exact match (EM), where predicted arguments must align exactly with annotated spans. While suitable for span-based…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-09-11 Omar Sharif , Joseph Gatto , Madhusudan Basak , Sarah M. Preum

Consumer Event-Cause Extraction, the task aimed at extracting the potential causes behind certain events in the text, has gained much attention in recent years due to its wide applications. The ICDM 2020 conference sets up an evaluation…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-04-25 Congqing He , Jie Zhang , Xiangyu Zhu , Huan Liu , Yukun Huang

Despite the success of deep learning for text and image data, tree-based ensemble models are still state-of-the-art for machine learning with heterogeneous tabular data. However, there is a significant need for tabular-specific…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-13 Sascha Marton , Stefan Lüdtke , Christian Bartelt , Heiner Stuckenschmidt

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

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

Reasoning about events and tracking their influences is fundamental to understanding processes. In this paper, we present EIGEN - a method to leverage pre-trained language models to generate event influences conditioned on a context, nature…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-10-23 Aman Madaan , Dheeraj Rajagopal , Yiming Yang , Abhilasha Ravichander , Eduard Hovy , Shrimai Prabhumoye

Document-level multi-event extraction aims to extract the structural information from a given document automatically. Most recent approaches usually involve two steps: (1) modeling entity interactions; (2) decoding entity interactions into…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-05-31 Xinyu Wang , Lin Gui , Yulan He

This work aims to delve deeper into prompt-based event argument extraction (EAE) models. We explore the impact of incorporating various types of information into the prompt on model performance, including trigger, other role arguments for…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-01-14 Chen Liang