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Effective ontology transfer has been a major goal of recent work on event argument extraction (EAE). Two methods in particular -- question answering (QA) and template infilling (TI) -- have emerged as promising approaches to this problem.…

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Relation extraction systems require large amounts of labeled examples which are costly to annotate. In this work we reformulate relation extraction as an entailment task, with simple, hand-made, verbalizations of relations produced in less…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-09-09 Oscar Sainz , Oier Lopez de Lacalle , Gorka Labaka , Ander Barrena , Eneko Agirre

Information Extraction (IE) plays a crucial role in Natural Language Processing (NLP) by extracting structured information from unstructured text, thereby facilitating seamless integration with various real-world applications that rely on…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-06-05 Yida Cai , Hao Sun , Hsiu-Yuan Huang , Yunfang Wu

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…

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Extracting structured information from zeolite synthesis experimental procedures is critical for materials discovery, yet existing methods have not systematically evaluated Large Language Models (LLMs) for this domain-specific task. This…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-12-18 Charan Prakash Rathore , Saumi Ray , Dhruv Kumar

Extracting structured and grounded fact triples from raw text is a fundamental task in Information Extraction (IE). Existing IE datasets are typically collected from Wikipedia articles, using hyperlinks to link entities to the Wikidata…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-06-16 Chenxi Whitehouse , Clara Vania , Alham Fikri Aji , Christos Christodoulopoulos , Andrea Pierleoni

Event Extraction (EE) is one of the fundamental tasks in Information Extraction (IE) that aims to recognize event mentions and their arguments (i.e., participants) from text. Due to its importance, extensive methods and resources have been…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-11-21 Amir Pouran Ben Veyseh , Javid Ebrahimi , Franck Dernoncourt , Thien Huu Nguyen

The majority of previous researches addressing multi-lingual IE are limited to zero-shot cross-lingual single-transfer (one-to-one) setting, with high-resource languages predominantly as source training data. As a result, these works…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-11-14 Nghia Trung Ngo , Thien Huu Nguyen

Information extraction (IE) aims to produce structured information from an input text, e.g., Named Entity Recognition and Relation Extraction. Various attempts have been proposed for IE via feature engineering or deep learning. However,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-12-09 Wenya Wang , Sinno Jialin Pan

Learning template based information extraction from documents is a crucial yet difficult task. Prior template-based IE approaches assume foreknowledge of the domain templates; however, real-world IE do not have pre-defined schemas and it is…

Large language models can perform well on general natural language tasks, but their effectiveness is still suboptimal for information extraction (IE). Recent works indicate that the main reason lies in the lack of extensive data on IE…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-07-30 Honghao Gui , Shuofei Qiao , Jintian Zhang , Hongbin Ye , Mengshu Sun , Lei Liang , Jeff Z. Pan , Huajun Chen , Ningyu Zhang

Open Information Extraction (OIE) systems seek to compress the factual propositions of a sentence into a series of n-ary tuples. These tuples are useful for downstream tasks in natural language processing like knowledge base creation,…

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Current social science efforts automatically populate event databases of "who did what to whom?" tuples, by applying event extraction (EE) to text such as news. The event databases are used to analyze sociopolitical dynamics between actor…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-06-04 Erica Cai , Brendan O'Connor

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

DataFlow has been emerging as a new paradigm for building task-oriented chatbots due to its expressive semantic representations of the dialogue tasks. Despite the availability of a large dataset SMCalFlow and a simplified syntax, the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-12-19 Han He , Song Feng , Daniele Bonadiman , Yi Zhang , Saab Mansour

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

We show that relation extraction can be reduced to answering simple reading comprehension questions, by associating one or more natural-language questions with each relation slot. This reduction has several advantages: we can (1) learn…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-06-14 Omer Levy , Minjoon Seo , Eunsol Choi , Luke Zettlemoyer

We present a large-scale empirical investigation of the zero-shot learning phenomena in a specific recognizing textual entailment (RTE) task category, i.e. the automated mining of leaderboards for Empirical AI Research. The prior reported…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-03-30 Salomon Kabongo , Jennifer D'Souza , Sören Auer

Information Extraction (IE) seeks to derive structured information from unstructured texts, often facing challenges in low-resource scenarios due to data scarcity and unseen classes. This paper presents a review of neural approaches to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-10-29 Shumin Deng , Yubo Ma , Ningyu Zhang , Yixin Cao , Bryan Hooi

Information extraction (IE) aims to extract structural knowledge from plain natural language texts. Recently, generative Large Language Models (LLMs) have demonstrated remarkable capabilities in text understanding and generation. As a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-11-01 Derong Xu , Wei Chen , Wenjun Peng , Chao Zhang , Tong Xu , Xiangyu Zhao , Xian Wu , Yefeng Zheng , Yang Wang , Enhong Chen