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Understanding key insights from full-text scholarly articles is essential as it enables us to determine interesting trends, give insight into the research and development, and build knowledge graphs. However, some of the interesting key…

Counterfactual explanation is a form of interpretable machine learning that generates perturbations on a sample to achieve the desired outcome. The generated samples can act as instructions to guide end users on how to observe the desired…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-28 Tri Dung Duong , Qian Li , Guandong Xu

Extracting temporal relations (e.g., before, after, and simultaneous) among events is crucial to natural language understanding. One of the key challenges of this problem is that when the events of interest are far away in text, the context…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-10-26 Shuaicheng Zhang , Lifu Huang , Qiang Ning

Spatial computing presents new opportunities for immersive data storytelling, yet there is limited guidance on how to build such experiences or adapt traditional narrative visualizations to this medium. We introduce a toolkit, R\'ECITKIT…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-08-27 Vidya Setlur , Samuel Ridet

Many implicit inferences exist in text depending on how it is structured that can critically impact the text's interpretation and meaning. One such structural aspect present in text with chronology is the order of its presentation. For…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-03-29 Varun Gangal , Steven Y. Feng , Malihe Alikhani , Teruko Mitamura , Eduard Hovy

Plan-and-Write is a common hierarchical approach in long-form narrative text generation, which first creates a plan to guide the narrative writing. Following this approach, several studies rely on simply prompting large language models for…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-13 Wang You , Wenshan Wu , Yaobo Liang , Shaoguang Mao , Chenfei Wu , Maosong Cao , Yuzhe Cai , Yiduo Guo , Yan Xia , Furu Wei , Nan Duan

Temporal knowledge graph, serving as an effective way to store and model dynamic relations, shows promising prospects in event forecasting. However, most temporal knowledge graph reasoning methods are highly dependent on the recurrence or…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-12-05 Yi Xu , Junjie Ou , Hui Xu , Luoyi Fu

The continued improvements in the predictive accuracy of machine learning models have allowed for their widespread practical application. Yet, many decisions made with seemingly accurate models still require verification by domain experts.…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2020-03-06 Oscar Gomez , Steffen Holter , Jun Yuan , Enrico Bertini

In this work, we present to the NLP community, and to the wider research community as a whole, an application for the diachronic analysis of research corpora. We open source an easy-to-use tool coined: DRIFT, which allows researchers to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-09-13 Abheesht Sharma , Gunjan Chhablani , Harshit Pandey , Rajaswa Patil

Recent developments in Neural Relation Extraction (NRE) have made significant strides towards Automated Knowledge Base Construction (AKBC). While much attention has been dedicated towards improvements in accuracy, there have been no…

Data is published on the web over time in great volumes, but majority of the data is unstructured, making it hard to understand and difficult to interpret. Information Extraction (IE) methods obtain structured information from unstructured…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-11-11 Ali Balali , Masoud Asadpour , Seyed Hossein Jafari

Unsupervised learning of low-dimensional, semantic representations of words and entities has recently gained attention. In this paper we describe the Semantic Entity Retrieval Toolkit (SERT) that provides implementations of our previously…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-07-18 Christophe Van Gysel , Maarten de Rijke , Evangelos Kanoulas

Fake news detection becomes particularly challenging in real-time scenarios, where emerging events often lack sufficient supporting evidence. Existing approaches often rely heavily on external evidence and therefore struggle to generalize…

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The industry 4.0 is leveraging digital technologies and machine learning techniques to connect and optimize manufacturing processes. Central to this idea is the ability to transform raw data into human understandable knowledge for reliable…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-06-07 Andrés Felipe Posada-Moreno , Kai Müller , Florian Brillowski , Friedrich Solowjow , Thomas Gries , Sebastian Trimpe

Event extraction has gained considerable interest due to its wide-ranging applications. However, recent studies draw attention to evaluation issues, suggesting that reported scores may not accurately reflect the true performance. In this…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-06-07 Kuan-Hao Huang , I-Hung Hsu , Tanmay Parekh , Zhiyu Xie , Zixuan Zhang , Premkumar Natarajan , Kai-Wei Chang , Nanyun Peng , Heng Ji

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

Event extraction (EE) is an essential task of information extraction, which aims to extract structured event information from unstructured text. Most prior work focuses on extracting flat events while neglecting overlapped or nested ones. A…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-09-07 Hu Cao , Jingye Li , Fangfang Su , Fei Li , Hao Fei , Shengqiong Wu , Bobo Li , Liang Zhao , Donghong Ji

The rapid growth and availability of event sequence data across domains requires effective analysis and exploration methods to facilitate decision-making. Visual analytics combines computational techniques with interactive visualizations,…

Identifying temporal relations between events is an essential step towards natural language understanding. However, the temporal relation between two events in a story depends on, and is often dictated by, relations among other events.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-06-13 Qiang Ning , Zhili Feng , Dan Roth

To improve the performance of long text generation, recent studies have leveraged automatically planned event structures (i.e. storylines) to guide story generation. Such prior works mostly employ end-to-end neural generation models to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-10-20 Chen Tang , Zhihao Zhang , Tyler Loakman , Chenghua Lin , Frank Guerin