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Scientific information extraction (SciIE) is critical for converting unstructured knowledge from scholarly articles into structured data (entities and relations). Several datasets have been proposed for training and validating SciIE models.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-10-29 Qi Zhang , Zhijia Chen , Huitong Pan , Cornelia Caragea , Longin Jan Latecki , Eduard Dragut

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

Extracting structured and grounded fact triples from raw text is a fundamental task in Information Extraction (IE). Existing IE datasets are typically collected from Wikipedia articles, using hyperlinks to link entities to the Wikidata…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-06-16 Chenxi Whitehouse , Clara Vania , Alham Fikri Aji , Christos Christodoulopoulos , Andrea Pierleoni

Idiomatic expressions have always been a bottleneck for language comprehension and natural language understanding, specifically for tasks like Machine Translation(MT). MT systems predominantly produce literal translations of idiomatic…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-06-18 Prateek Saxena , Soma Paul

This paper presents LEMONADE, a large-scale conflict event dataset comprising 39,786 events across 20 languages and 171 countries, with extensive coverage of region-specific entities. LEMONADE is based on a partially reannotated subset of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-06-03 Sina J. Semnani , Pingyue Zhang , Wanyue Zhai , Haozhuo Li , Ryan Beauchamp , Trey Billing , Katayoun Kishi , Manling Li , Monica S. Lam

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

Relation extraction (RE) is a fundamental task in information extraction, whose extension to multilingual settings has been hindered by the lack of supervised resources comparable in size to large English datasets such as TACRED (Zhang et…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-05-16 Leonhard Hennig , Philippe Thomas , Sebastian Möller

Document-level event argument extraction (DEAE) is essential for knowledge acquisition, aiming to extract participants of events from documents . In the zero-shot setting, existing methods employ LLMs to generate synthetic data to address…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-03-05 Guangjun Zhang , Hu Zhang , Yazhou Han , Yue Fan , Yuhang Shao , Ru Li , Hongye Tan

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

Multiword expressions (MWEs) refer to idiomatic sequences of multiple words. MWE identification, i.e., detecting MWEs in text, can play a key role in downstream tasks such as machine translation, but existing datasets for the task are…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-07-11 Yusuke Ide , Joshua Tanner , Adam Nohejl , Jacob Hoffman , Justin Vasselli , Hidetaka Kamigaito , Taro Watanabe

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

Document-level Event Argument Extraction (EAE) faces two challenges due to increased input length: 1) difficulty in distinguishing semantic boundaries between events, and 2) interference from redundant information. To address these issues,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-11-12 Jiaren Peng , Hongda Sun , Wenzhong Yang , Fuyuan Wei , Liang He , Liejun Wang

Event extraction aims to recognize pre-defined event triggers and arguments from texts, which suffer from the lack of high-quality annotations. In most NLP applications, involving a large scale of synthetic training data is a practical and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-05-17 bo wang , Heyan Huang , Xiaochi Wei , Ge Shi , Xiao Liu , Chong Feng , Tong Zhou , Shuaiqiang Wang , Dawei Yin

Most existing event extraction (EE) methods merely extract event arguments within the sentence scope. However, such sentence-level EE methods struggle to handle soaring amounts of documents from emerging applications, such as finance,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-09-24 Shun Zheng , Wei Cao , Wei Xu , Jiang Bian

Extracting the reported events from text is one of the key research themes in natural language processing. This process includes several tasks such as event detection, argument extraction, role labeling. As one of the most important topics…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-10-11 Viet Dac Lai

Multimodal information extraction (IE) tasks have attracted increasing attention because many studies have shown that multimodal information benefits text information extraction. However, existing multimodal IE datasets mainly focus on…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-12-17 Jiang Liu , Bobo Li , Xinran Yang , Na Yang , Hao Fei , Mingyao Zhang , Fei Li , Donghong Ji

Event extraction (EE) plays an important role in many industrial application scenarios, and high-quality EE methods require a large amount of manual annotation data to train supervised learning models. However, the cost of obtaining…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-03-21 Shirong Shen , Zhen Li , Guilin Qi

Structural extraction of events within discourse is critical since it avails a deeper understanding of communication patterns and behavior trends. Event argument extraction (EAE), at the core of event-centric understanding, is the task of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-03-21 Xinliang Frederick Zhang , Carter Blum , Temma Choji , Shalin Shah , Alakananda Vempala

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

Events describe the state changes of entities. In a document, multiple events are connected by various relations (e.g., Coreference, Temporal, Causal, and Subevent). Therefore, obtaining the connections between events through Event-Event…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-03-20 Haochen Li , Di Geng