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A lot of prior work on event extraction has exploited a variety of features to represent events. Such methods have several drawbacks: 1) the features are often specific for a particular domain and do not generalize well; 2) the features are…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2016-10-05 Yandi Xia , Yang Liu

Event understanding aims at understanding the content and relationship of events within texts, which covers multiple complicated information extraction tasks: event detection, event argument extraction, and event relation extraction. To…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-09-26 Hao Peng , Xiaozhi Wang , Feng Yao , Zimu Wang , Chuzhao Zhu , Kaisheng Zeng , Lei Hou , Juanzi Li

Event extraction (EE) is a fundamental task in natural language processing (NLP) that involves identifying and extracting event information from unstructured text. Effective EE in real-world scenarios requires two key steps: selecting…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-05-14 Sheng Liang , Hang Lv , Zhihao Wen , Yaxiong Wu , Yongyue Zhang , Hao Wang , Yong Liu

Extracting information from full documents is an important problem in many domains, but most previous work focus on identifying relationships within a sentence or a paragraph. It is challenging to create a large-scale information extraction…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-05-04 Sarthak Jain , Madeleine van Zuylen , Hannaneh Hajishirzi , Iz Beltagy

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 is a classic task in natural language processing with wide use in handling large amount of yet rapidly growing financial, legal, medical, and government documents which often contain multiple events with their elements…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-09-07 Kaihao Guo , Tianpei Jiang , Haipeng Zhang

Event extraction is an important work of medical text processing. According to the complex characteristics of medical text annotation, we use the end-to-end event extraction model to enhance the output formatting information of events.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-08-22 Wei Feng , Ruochen Huang , Yun Yu , Huiting Sun , Yun Liu

Event extraction (EE) is the task of identifying interested event mentions from text. Conventional efforts mainly focus on the supervised setting. However, these supervised models cannot generalize to event types out of the pre-defined…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-11-15 Hongming Zhang , Wenlin Yao , Dong Yu

Despite the significant impact of visual events on human cognition, understanding events in videos remains a challenging task for AI due to their complex structures, semantic hierarchies, and dynamic evolution. To address this, we propose…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-04 Baoyu Liang , Qile Su , Shoutai Zhu , Yuchen Liang , Chao Tong

Developing a general-purpose extraction system that can extract events with massive types is a long-standing target in Event Extraction (EE). In doing so, the challenge comes from two aspects: 1) The absence of an efficient and effective…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-03-05 Wenxuan Liu , Zixuan Li , Long Bai , Yuxin Zuo , Daozhu Xu , Xiaolong Jin , Jiafeng Guo , Xueqi Cheng

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

Social media is often the first place where communities discuss the latest societal trends. Prior works have utilized this platform to extract epidemic-related information (e.g. infections, preventive measures) to provide early warnings for…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-10-25 Tanmay Parekh , Jeffrey Kwan , Jiarui Yu , Sparsh Johri , Hyosang Ahn , Sreya Muppalla , Kai-Wei Chang , Wei Wang , Nanyun Peng

Event detection (ED), which means identifying event trigger words and classifying event types, is the first and most fundamental step for extracting event knowledge from plain text. Most existing datasets exhibit the following issues that…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-10-09 Xiaozhi Wang , Ziqi Wang , Xu Han , Wangyi Jiang , Rong Han , Zhiyuan Liu , Juanzi Li , Peng Li , Yankai Lin , Jie Zhou

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

Named Entity Recognition and Relation Extraction for Chinese literature text is regarded as the highly difficult problem, partially because of the lack of tagging sets. In this paper, we build a discourse-level dataset from hundreds of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-06-12 Jingjing Xu , Ji Wen , Xu Sun , Qi Su

Event extraction is challenging due to the complex structure of event records and the semantic gap between text and event. Traditional methods usually extract event records by decomposing the complex structure prediction task into multiple…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-06-18 Yaojie Lu , Hongyu Lin , Jin Xu , Xianpei Han , Jialong Tang , Annan Li , Le Sun , Meng Liao , Shaoyi Chen

In search engines, query expansion (QE) is a crucial technique to improve search experience. Previous studies often rely on long-term search log mining, which leads to slow updates and is sub-optimal for time-sensitive news searches. In…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-05-31 Yanan Zhang , Weijie Cui , Yangfan Zhang , Xiaoling Bai , Zhe Zhang , Jin Ma , Xiang Chen , Tianhua Zhou

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

Events are inter-related in documents. Motivated by the one-sense-per-discourse theory, we hypothesize that a participant tends to play consistent roles across multiple events in the same document. However recent work on document-level…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-05-31 Qi Zeng , Qiusi Zhan , Heng Ji

Event extraction (EE) is a crucial information extraction task that aims to extract event information in texts. Most existing methods assume that events appear in sentences without overlaps, which are not applicable to the complicated…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-07-06 Jiawei Sheng , Shu Guo , Bowen Yu , Qian Li , Yiming Hei , Lihong Wang , Tingwen Liu , Hongbo Xu