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Event extraction has long been treated as a sentence-level task in the IE community. We argue that this setting does not match human information-seeking behavior and leads to incomplete and uninformative extraction results. We propose a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-04-14 Sha Li , Heng Ji , Jiawei Han

Event extraction identifies the central aspects of events from text. It supports event understanding and analysis, which is crucial for tasks such as informed decision-making in emergencies. Therefore, it is necessary to develop automated…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-24 Praval Sharma , Ashok Samal , Leen-Kiat Soh , Deepti Joshi

Events and entities are closely related; entities are often actors or participants in events and events without entities are uncommon. The interpretation of events and entities is highly contextually dependent. Existing work in information…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2016-09-14 Bishan Yang , Tom Mitchell

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

Extracting informative arguments of events from news articles is a challenging problem in information extraction, which requires a global contextual understanding of each document. While recent work on document-level extraction has gone…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-09-20 Xinya Du , Sha Li , Heng Ji

We describe our effort on automated extraction of socio-political events from news in the scope of a workshop and a shared task we organized at Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC 2020). We believe the event extraction…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-05-14 Ali Hürriyetoğlu , Vanni Zavarella , Hristo Tanev , Erdem Yörük , Ali Safaya , Osman Mutlu

The task of event extraction has long been investigated in a supervised learning paradigm, which is bound by the number and the quality of the training instances. Existing training data must be manually generated through a combination of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-12-12 Ying Zeng , Yansong Feng , Rong Ma , Zheng Wang , Rui Yan , Chongde Shi , Dongyan Zhao

Document-level event extraction is a long-standing challenging information retrieval problem involving a sequence of sub-tasks: entity extraction, event type judgment, and event type-specific multi-event extraction. However, addressing the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-07-03 Qizhi Wan , Changxuan Wan , Keli Xiao , Hui Xiong , Dexi Liu , Xiping Liu

Social Media websites have disseminated digital devices to the public, making information sharing easier and faster. Exchanging textual data is the most popular communication among social media users. It has become a necessity for…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2020-08-13 Fouzi Harrag , Selmene Gueliani

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

Few works in the literature of event extraction have gone beyond individual sentences to make extraction decisions. This is problematic when the information needed to recognize an event argument is spread across multiple sentences. We argue…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-05-15 Xinya Du , Claire Cardie

Event data is the basis for all process mining analysis. Most process mining techniques assume their input to be an event log. However, event data is rarely recorded in an event log format, but has to be extracted from raw data. Event log…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-11-09 Dirk Fahland

Keyphrase extraction is a textual information processing task concerned with the automatic extraction of representative and characteristic phrases from a document that express all the key aspects of its content. Keyphrases constitute a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-07-31 Eirini Papagiannopoulou , Grigorios Tsoumakas

We consider open domain event extraction, the task of extracting unconstraint types of events from news clusters. A novel latent variable neural model is constructed, which is scalable to very large corpus. A dataset is collected and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-12-19 Xiao Liu , Heyan Huang , Yue Zhang

In this paper we present an approach to extract ordered timelines of events, their participants, locations and times from a set of multilingual and cross-lingual data sources. Based on the assumption that event-related information can be…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-02-03 Egoitz Laparra , Rodrigo Agerri , Itziar Aldabe , German Rigau

Event Extraction (EE) is one of the essential tasks in information extraction, which aims to detect event mentions from text and find the corresponding argument roles. The EE task can be abstracted as a process of matching the semantic…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-06-07 Haochen Li , Tianhao Gao , Jingkun Wang , Weiping Li

Event extraction is an Information Retrieval task that commonly consists of identifying the central word for the event (trigger) and the event's arguments. This task has been extensively studied for English but lags behind for Portuguese,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-09-02 Luís Filipe Cunha , Ricardo Campos , Alípio Jorge

Automatic extraction of cause-effect relationships from natural language texts is a challenging open problem in Artificial Intelligence. Most of the early attempts at its solution used manually constructed linguistic and syntactic rules on…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2016-05-26 Nabiha Asghar

Fully understanding narratives often requires identifying events in the context of whole documents and modeling the event relations. However, document-level event extraction is a challenging task as it requires the extraction of event and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-05-11 Kung-Hsiang Huang , Nanyun Peng

Storytelling, whether via fables, news reports, documentaries, or memoirs, can be thought of as the communication of interesting and related events that, taken together, form a concrete process. It is desirable to extract the event chains…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-09-23 Xiyang Zhang , Muhao Chen , Jonathan May