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Zero-shot event extraction (ZSEE) remains a significant challenge for large language models (LLMs) due to the need for complex reasoning and domain-specific understanding. Direct prompting often yields incomplete or structurally invalid…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Quanjiang Guo , Sijie Wang , Jinchuan Zhang , Ben Zhang , Zhao Kang , Ling Tian , Ke Yan

Event Relation Extraction (ERE) aims to extract multiple kinds of relations among events in texts. However, existing methods singly categorize event relations as different classes, which are inadequately capturing the intrinsic semantics of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-09-25 Zhilei Hu , Zixuan Li , Daozhu Xu , Long Bai , Cheng Jin , Xiaolong Jin , Jiafeng Guo , Xueqi Cheng

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

Previous entity disambiguation (ED) methods adopt a discriminative paradigm, where prediction is made based on matching scores between mention context and candidate entities using length-limited encoders. However, these methods often…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-11-07 Zilin Xiao , Linjun Shou , Xingyao Zhang , Jie Wu , Ming Gong , Jian Pei , Daxin Jiang

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…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-01-26 Hongbin Ye , Ningyu Zhang , Zhen Bi , Shumin Deng , Chuanqi Tan , Hui Chen , Fei Huang , Huajun Chen

Event detection in unconstrained videos is conceived as a content-based video retrieval with two modalities: textual and visual. Given a text describing a novel event, the goal is to rank related videos accordingly. This task is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-05-08 Noureldien Hussein , Efstratios Gavves , Arnold W. M. Smeulders

Event extraction (EE) is one of the core information extraction tasks, whose purpose is to automatically identify and extract information about incidents and their actors from texts. This may be beneficial to several domains such as…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-29 Ali Balali , Masoud Asadpour , Ricardo Campos , Adam Jatowt

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

Large language models (LLMs) and multimodal LLMs are changing event extraction (EE): prompting and generation can often produce structured outputs in zero shot or few shot settings. Yet LLM based pipelines face deployment gaps, including…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-12-23 Bobo Li , Xudong Han , Jiang Liu , Yuzhe Ding , Liqiang Jing , Zhaoqi Zhang , Jinheng Li , Xinya Du , Fei Li , Meishan Zhang , Min Zhang , Aixin Sun , Philip S. Yu , Hao Fei

Event extraction is typically modeled as a multi-class classification problem where event types and argument roles are treated as atomic symbols. These approaches are usually limited to a set of pre-defined types. We propose a novel event…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-03-23 Sijia Wang , Mo Yu , Shiyu Chang , Lichao Sun , Lifu Huang

Semantic matching is a mainstream paradigm of zero-shot relation extraction, which matches a given input with a corresponding label description. The entities in the input should exactly match their hypernyms in the description, while the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-06-09 Jun Zhao , Wenyu Zhan , Xin Zhao , Qi Zhang , Tao Gui , Zhongyu Wei , Junzhe Wang , Minlong Peng , Mingming Sun

Event argument extraction (EAE) has been well studied at the sentence level but under-explored at the document level. In this paper, we study to capture event arguments that actually spread across sentences in documents. Prior works usually…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-05-29 Xianjun Yang , Yujie Lu , Linda Petzold

We study continual event extraction, which aims to extract incessantly emerging event information while avoiding forgetting. We observe that the semantic confusion on event types stems from the annotations of the same text being updated…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-25 Zitao Wang , Xinyi Wang , Wei Hu

Recent work has shown that NLP tasks such as Relation Extraction (RE) can be recasted as Textual Entailment tasks using verbalizations, with strong performance in zero-shot and few-shot settings thanks to pre-trained entailment models. The…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-05-04 Oscar Sainz , Itziar Gonzalez-Dios , Oier Lopez de Lacalle , Bonan Min , Eneko Agirre

The problem of event extraction requires detecting the event trigger and extracting its corresponding arguments. Existing work in event argument extraction typically relies heavily on entity recognition as a preprocessing/concurrent step,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-02-08 Xinya Du , Claire Cardie

Event cameras asynchronously capture brightness changes with low latency, high temporal resolution, and high dynamic range. However, annotation of event data is a costly and laborious process, which limits the use of deep learning methods…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-27 Simon Klenk , David Bonello , Lukas Koestler , Nikita Araslanov , Daniel Cremers

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

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 (EE) has considerably benefited from pre-trained language models (PLMs) by fine-tuning. However, existing pre-training methods have not involved modeling event characteristics, resulting in the developed EE models cannot…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-06-01 Ziqi Wang , Xiaozhi Wang , Xu Han , Yankai Lin , Lei Hou , Zhiyuan Liu , Peng Li , Juanzi Li , Jie Zhou

Event detection (ED) is aimed to identify the key trigger words in unstructured text and predict the event types accordingly. Traditional ED models are too data-hungry to accommodate real applications with scarce labeled data. Besides,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-05-17 Siyuan Wang , Jianming Zheng , Xuejun Hu , Fei Cai , Chengyu Song , Xueshan Luo