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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

The recent development of zero-shot reinforcement learning (RL) has opened a new avenue for learning pre-trained generalist policies that can adapt to arbitrary new tasks in a zero-shot manner. While the popular Forward-Backward…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-24 Kexin Zheng , Lauriane Teyssier , Yinan Zheng , Yu Luo , Xianyuan Zhan

The problem of entity-typing has been studied predominantly in supervised learning fashion, mostly with task-specific annotations (for coarse types) and sometimes with distant supervision (for fine types). While such approaches have strong…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-07-09 Ben Zhou , Daniel Khashabi , Chen-Tse Tsai , Dan Roth

Typically, information extraction (IE) requires a pipeline approach: first, a sequence labeling model is trained on manually annotated documents to extract relevant spans; then, when a new document arrives, a model predicts spans which are…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-10-12 Benjamin Townsend , Eamon Ito-Fisher , Lily Zhang , Madison May

The task of triplet extraction aims to extract pairs of entities and their corresponding relations from unstructured text. Most existing methods train an extraction model on training data involving specific target relations, and are…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-09-21 Bosung Kim , Hayate Iso , Nikita Bhutani , Estevam Hruschka , Ndapa Nakashole , Tom Mitchell

Zero-shot cross-lingual information extraction(IE) aims at constructing an IE model for some low-resource target languages, given annotations exclusively in some rich-resource languages. Recent studies based on language-universal features…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-05-23 Jun-Yu Ma , Jia-Chen Gu , Zhen-Hua Ling , Quan Liu , Cong Liu , Guoping Hu

We present a study on leveraging multilingual pre-trained generative language models for zero-shot cross-lingual event argument extraction (EAE). By formulating EAE as a language generation task, our method effectively encodes event…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-03-17 Kuan-Hao Huang , I-Hung Hsu , Premkumar Natarajan , Kai-Wei Chang , Nanyun Peng

With the abundant amount of available online and offline text data, there arises a crucial need to extract the relation between phrases and summarize the main content of each document in a few words. For this purpose, there have been many…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-10-19 Serafina Kamp , Morteza Fayazi , Zineb Benameur-El , Shuyan Yu , Ronald Dreslinski

Zero-shot learning aims to recognize unseen objects using their semantic representations. Most existing works use visual attributes labeled by humans, not suitable for large-scale applications. In this paper, we revisit the use of documents…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-22 Jihyung Kil , Wei-Lun Chao

Although large language models can be prompted for both zero- and few-shot learning, performance drops significantly when no demonstrations are available. In this paper, we introduce Z-ICL, a new zero-shot method that closes the gap by…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-06-06 Xinxi Lyu , Sewon Min , Iz Beltagy , Luke Zettlemoyer , Hannaneh Hajishirzi

Most previous event extraction studies have relied heavily on features derived from annotated event mentions, thus cannot be applied to new event types without annotation effort. In this work, we take a fresh look at event extraction and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-07-05 Lifu Huang , Heng Ji , Kyunghyun Cho , Clare R. Voss

Converting a model's internals to text can yield human-understandable insights about the model. Inspired by the recent success of training-free approaches for image captioning, we propose ZS-A2T, a zero-shot framework that translates the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-10 Leonard Salewski , A. Sophia Koepke , Hendrik P. A. Lensch , Zeynep Akata

Document-level information extraction (IE) tasks have recently begun to be revisited in earnest using the end-to-end neural network techniques that have been successful on their sentence-level IE counterparts. Evaluation of the approaches,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-09-16 Aliva Das , Xinya Du , Barry Wang , Kejian Shi , Jiayuan Gu , Thomas Porter , Claire Cardie

Cyber Threat Intelligence (CTI) is critical for mitigating threats to organizations, governments, and institutions, yet the necessary data are often dispersed across diverse formats. AI-driven solutions for CTI Information Extraction (IE)…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-01-14 Olga Sorokoletova , Emanuele Antonioni , Giordano Colò

Social scientists quickly adopted large language models due to their ability to annotate documents without supervised training, an ability known as zero-shot learning. However, due to their compute demands, cost, and often proprietary…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-01-14 Michael Burnham , Kayla Kahn , Ryan Yank Wang , Rachel X. Peng

The challenge of information extraction (IE) lies in the diversity of label schemas and the heterogeneity of structures. Traditional methods require task-specific model design and rely heavily on expensive supervision, making them difficult…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-01-10 Jie Lou , Yaojie Lu , Dai Dai , Wei Jia , Hongyu Lin , Xianpei Han , Le Sun , Hua Wu

In this paper, we present ISI-Clear, a state-of-the-art, cross-lingual, zero-shot event extraction system and accompanying user interface for event visualization & search. Using only English training data, ISI-Clear makes global events…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-05-19 Chris Jenkins , Shantanu Agarwal , Joel Barry , Steven Fincke , Elizabeth Boschee

Existing works on information extraction (IE) have mainly solved the four main tasks separately (entity mention recognition, relation extraction, event trigger detection, and argument extraction), thus failing to benefit from…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-03-30 Minh Van Nguyen , Viet Dac Lai , Thien Huu Nguyen

Legal practitioners often face a vast amount of documents. Lawyers, for instance, search for appropriate precedents favorable to their clients, while the number of legal precedents is ever-growing. Although legal search engines can assist…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-11-04 Wonseok Hwang , Saehee Eom , Hanuhl Lee , Hai Jin Park , Minjoon Seo

Entity structure extraction, which aims to extract entities and their associated attribute-value structures from text, is an essential task for text understanding and knowledge graph construction. Existing methods based on large language…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-02-02 Xueqiang Xu , Jinfeng Xiao , James Barry , Mohab Elkaref , Jiaru Zou , Pengcheng Jiang , Yunyi Zhang , Max Giammona , Geeth de Mel , Jiawei Han