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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

We consider the problem of Open-world Information Extraction (Open-world IE), which extracts comprehensive entity profiles from unstructured texts. Different from the conventional closed-world setting of Information Extraction (IE),…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-05-25 Keming Lu , Xiaoman Pan , Kaiqiang Song , Hongming Zhang , Dong Yu , Jianshu Chen

Information extraction tasks such as event extraction require an in-depth understanding of the output structure and sub-task dependencies. They heavily rely on task-specific training data in the form of (passage, target structure) pairs to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-02-22 Mingyu Derek Ma , Xiaoxuan Wang , Po-Nien Kung , P. Jeffrey Brantingham , Nanyun Peng , Wei Wang

Open information extraction (IE) is the task of extracting open-domain assertions from natural language sentences. A key step in open IE is confidence modeling, ranking the extractions based on their estimated quality to adjust precision…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-06-03 Zhengbao Jiang , Pengcheng Yin , Graham Neubig

Constructing accurate knowledge graphs from long texts and low-resource languages is challenging, as large language models (LLMs) experience degraded performance with longer input chunks. This problem is amplified in low-resource settings…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-03-25 Divyansh Singh , Manuel Nunez Martinez , Bonnie J. Dorr , Sonja Schmer Galunder

Information Extraction (IE) researchers are mapping tasks to Question Answering (QA) in order to leverage existing large QA resources, and thereby improve data efficiency. Especially in template extraction (TE), mapping an ontology to a set…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-05-26 Nils Holzenberger , Yunmo Chen , Benjamin Van Durme

Large Language Models (LLMs) show remarkable potential for few-shot information extraction (IE), yet their performance is highly sensitive to the choice of in-context examples. Conventional selection strategies often fail to provide…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-13 Dong Zhao , Yadong Wang , Xiang Chen , Chenxi Wang , Hongliang Dai , Chuanxing Geng , Shengzhong Zhang , Shaoyuan Li , Sheng-Jun Huang

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…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2019-01-29 Lin Qiu , Hao Zhou , Yanru Qu , Weinan Zhang , Suoheng Li , Shu Rong , Dongyu Ru , Lihua Qian , Kewei Tu , Yong Yu

Information extraction (IE) from Visually Rich Documents (VRDs) containing layout features along with text is a critical and well-studied task. Specialized non-LLM NLP-based solutions typically involve training models using both textual and…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-05-21 Aniket Bhattacharyya , Anurag Tripathi , Ujjal Das , Archan Karmakar , Amit Pathak , Maneesh Gupta

Open Information Extraction (Open IE) systems aim to obtain relation tuples with highly scalable extraction in portable across domain by identifying a variety of relation phrases and their arguments in arbitrary sentences. The first…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2016-07-12 Duc-Thuan Vo , Ebrahim Bagheri

The task of Information Extraction (IE) involves automatically converting unstructured textual content into structured data. Most research in this field concentrates on extracting all facts or a specific set of relationships from documents.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-01-19 Nicolas Gutehrlé , Iana Atanassova

Information extraction (IE) plays very important role in natural language processing (NLP) and is fundamental to many NLP applications that used to extract structured information from unstructured text data. Heuristic-based searching and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-07-04 Shiyu Yuan , Carlo Lipizzi

We introduce iterative retrieval, a novel framework that empowers retrievers to make iterative decisions through policy optimization. Finding an optimal portfolio of retrieved items is a combinatorial optimization problem, generally…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-06-24 Yunmo Chen , Tongfei Chen , Harsh Jhamtani , Patrick Xia , Richard Shin , Jason Eisner , Benjamin Van Durme

Information extraction (IE) is an important task in Natural Language Processing (NLP), involving the extraction of named entities and their relationships from unstructured text. In this paper, we propose a novel approach to this task by…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-04-22 Urchade Zaratiana , Nadi Tomeh , Niama El Khbir , Pierre Holat , Thierry Charnois

In this paper, we champion the use of structured and semantic content representation of discourse-based scholarly communication, inspired by tools like Wikipedia infoboxes or structured Amazon product descriptions. These representations…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-01-19 Mahsa Shamsabadi , Jennifer D'Souza , Sören Auer

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

Open Information Extraction (OpenIE) represents a crucial NLP task aimed at deriving structured information from unstructured text, unrestricted by relation type or domain. This survey paper provides an overview of OpenIE technologies…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-10-25 Pai Liu , Wenyang Gao , Wenjie Dong , Lin Ai , Ziwei Gong , Songfang Huang , Zongsheng Li , Ehsan Hoque , Julia Hirschberg , Yue Zhang

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

As web agents (e.g., Deep Research) routinely consume massive volumes of web pages to gather and analyze information, LLM context management -- under large token budgets and low signal density -- emerges as a foundational, high-importance,…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-12-09 Yihan Chen , Benfeng Xu , Xiaorui Wang , Zhendong Mao

Large Language Models (LLMs) have revolutionized many areas of artificial intelligence (AI), but their substantial resource requirements limit their deployment on mobile and edge devices. This survey paper provides a comprehensive overview…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-03 Sanjay Surendranath Girija , Shashank Kapoor , Lakshit Arora , Dipen Pradhan , Aman Raj , Ankit Shetgaonkar