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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

Event extraction is a fundamental task in natural language processing that involves identifying and extracting information about events mentioned in text. However, it is a challenging task due to the lack of annotated data, which is…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-03-10 Jun Gao , Huan Zhao , Changlong Yu , Ruifeng Xu

Financial event entity extraction is a crucial task for analyzing market dynamics and building financial knowledge graphs, yet it presents significant challenges due to the specialized language and complex structures in financial texts.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-04-22 Soo-joon Choi , Ji-jun Park

Most existing event extraction (EE) methods merely extract event arguments within the sentence scope. However, such sentence-level EE methods struggle to handle soaring amounts of documents from emerging applications, such as finance,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-09-24 Shun Zheng , Wei Cao , Wei Xu , Jiang Bian

Joint event and causality extraction is a challenging yet essential task in information retrieval and data mining. Recently, pre-trained language models (e.g., BERT) yield state-of-the-art results and dominate in a variety of NLP tasks.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-02-22 Zijian Wang , Hao Wang , Xiangfeng Luo , Jianqi Gao

Event Causality Identification (ECI) has become an essential task in Natural Language Processing (NLP), focused on automatically detecting causal relationships between events within texts. This comprehensive survey systematically…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-07-25 Qing Cheng , Zefan Zeng , Xingchen Hu , Yuehang Si , Zhong Liu

Event extraction, the technology that aims to automatically get the structural information from documents, has attracted more and more attention in many fields. Most existing works discuss this issue with the token-level multi-label…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-01-11 Zhuo Xu , Yue Wang , Lu Bai , Lixin Cui

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

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

Document-level Event Causality Identification (DECI) aims to identify causal relations between event pairs in a document. It poses a great challenge of across-sentence reasoning without clear causal indicators. In this paper, we propose a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-04-18 Meiqi Chen , Yixin Cao , Kunquan Deng , Mukai Li , Kun Wang , Jing Shao , Yan Zhang

Understanding causality in event sequences where outcome labels such as diseases or system failures arise from preceding events like symptoms or error codes is critical. Yet remains an unsolved challenge across domains like healthcare or…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-15 Hugo Math , Rainer Lienhart

Recent work on Event Extraction has reframed the task as Question Answering (QA), with promising results. The advantage of this approach is that it addresses the error propagation issue found in traditional token-based classification…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-07-13 Di Lu , Shihao Ran , Joel Tetreault , Alejandro Jaimes

Event Causality Extraction (ECE) aims at extracting causal event pairs from texts. Despite ChatGPT's recent success, fine-tuning small models remains the best approach for the ECE task. However, existing fine-tuning based ECE methods cannot…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-08-07 Jinglong Gao , Chen Lu , Xiao Ding , Zhongyang Li , Ting Liu , Bing Qin

In this paper, we present our approach and empirical observations for Cause-Effect Signal Span Detection -- Subtask 2 of Shared task 3~\cite{tan-etal-2022-event} at CASE 2022. The shared task aims to extract the cause, effect, and signal…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-11-01 Xingran Chen , Ge Zhang , Adam Nik , Mingyu Li , Jie Fu

Event Relation Extraction (ERE) aims to extract multiple kinds of relations among events in texts. However, existing methods singly categorize event relations as different classes, which are inadequately capturing the intrinsic semantics of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-09-25 Zhilei Hu , Zixuan Li , Daozhu Xu , Long Bai , Cheng Jin , Xiaolong Jin , Jiafeng Guo , Xueqi Cheng

Systems for automatic extraction of semantic information about events from large textual resources are now available: these tools are capable to generate RDF datasets about text extracted events and this knowledge can be used to reason over…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2016-12-02 Stefano Borgo , Loris Bozzato , Alessio Palmero Aprosio , Marco Rospocher , Luciano Serafini

Identifying cause-and-effect relationships is critical to understanding real-world dynamics and ultimately causal reasoning. Existing methods for identifying event causality in NLP, including those based on Large Language Models (LLMs),…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-02-13 Vy Vo , Lizhen Qu , Tao Feng , Yuncheng Hua , Xiaoxi Kang , Songhai Fan , Tim Dwyer , Lay-Ki Soon , Gholamreza Haffari

With the rapid development of information technology, online platforms have produced enormous text resources. As a particular form of Information Extraction (IE), Event Extraction (EE) has gained increasing popularity due to its ability to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-11-08 Jiangwei Liu , Liangyu Min , Xiaohong Huang

Joint extraction of entities and relations is an important task in information extraction. To tackle this problem, we firstly propose a novel tagging scheme that can convert the joint extraction task to a tagging problem. Then, based on our…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-06-19 Suncong Zheng , Feng Wang , Hongyun Bao , Yuexing Hao , Peng Zhou , Bo Xu

In this paper, we describe our approach in the shared task: COVID-19 event extraction from Twitter. The objective of this task is to extract answers from COVID-related tweets to a set of predefined slot-filling questions. Our approach…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-02-19 Congcong Wang , David Lillis