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Multimodal information extraction (MIE) aims to extract structured information from unstructured multimedia content. Due to the diversity of tasks and settings, most current MIE models are task-specific and data-intensive, which limits…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-05 Yuxuan Sun , Kai Zhang , Yu Su

Speech Event Extraction (SpeechEE) is a challenging task that lies at the intersection of Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) and Natural Language Processing (NLP), requiring the identification of structured event information from spoken…

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As a pivotal task in natural language processing, element extraction has gained significance in the legal domain. Extracting legal elements from judicial documents helps enhance interpretative and analytical capacities of legal cases, and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-11 Xue Zongyue , Liu Huanghai , Hu Yiran , Kong Kangle , Wang Chenlu , Liu Yun , Shen Weixing

While existing video benchmarks largely consider specialized downstream tasks like retrieval or question-answering (QA), contemporary multimodal AI systems must be capable of well-rounded common-sense reasoning akin to human visual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-17 Kate Sanders , Benjamin Van Durme

As an essential task in information extraction (IE), Event-Event Causal Relation Extraction (ECRE) aims to identify and classify the causal relationships between event mentions in natural language texts. However, existing research on ECRE…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-10-08 Zimu Wang , Lei Xia , Wei Wang , Xinya Du

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

Traditionally, a debate usually requires a manual preparation process, including reading plenty of articles, selecting the claims, identifying the stances of the claims, seeking the evidence for the claims, etc. As the AI debate attracts…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-07-19 Liying Cheng , Lidong Bing , Ruidan He , Qian Yu , Yan Zhang , Luo Si

Visual and textual modalities contribute complementary information about events described in multimedia documents. Videos contain rich dynamics and detailed unfoldings of events, while text describes more high-level and abstract concepts.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-28 Brian Chen , Xudong Lin , Christopher Thomas , Manling Li , Shoya Yoshida , Lovish Chum , Heng Ji , Shih-Fu Chang

Research in Machine Learning (ML) and AI evolves rapidly. Information Extraction (IE) from scientific publications enables to identify information about research concepts and resources on a large scale and therefore is a pathway to improve…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-11-13 Wolfgang Otto , Lu Gan , Sharmila Upadhyaya , Saurav Karmakar , Stefan Dietze

Information extraction (IE) systems aim to automatically extract structured information, such as named entities, relations between entities, and events, from unstructured texts. While most existing work addresses a particular IE task,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-05-22 Chang Gao , Wenxuan Zhang , Wai Lam , Lidong Bing

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

The Entity Set Expansion (ESE) task aims to expand a handful of seed entities with new entities belonging to the same semantic class. Conventional ESE methods are based on mono-modality (i.e., literal modality), which struggle to deal with…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-07-28 Yangning Li , Tingwei Lu , Yinghui Li , Tianyu Yu , Shulin Huang , Hai-Tao Zheng , Rui Zhang , Jun Yuan

The task of event detection and classification is central to most information retrieval applications. We show that a Transformer based architecture can effectively model event extraction as a sequence labeling task. We propose a combination…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-09-16 Parul Awasthy , Tahira Naseem , Jian Ni , Taesun Moon , Radu Florian

Event Extraction (EE) involves automatically identifying and extracting structured information about events from unstructured text, including triggers, event types, and arguments. Traditional discriminative models demonstrate high precision…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-08-28 Fatemeh Haji , Mazal Bethany , Cho-Yu Jason Chiang , Anthony Rios , Peyman Najafirad

Typically, information extraction (IE) requires a pipeline approach: first, a sequence labeling model is trained on manually annotated documents to extract relevant spans; then, when a new document arrives, a model predicts spans which are…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-10-12 Benjamin Townsend , Eamon Ito-Fisher , Lily Zhang , Madison May

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

Natural language understanding's relation extraction makes innovative and encouraging novel business concepts possible and facilitates new digitilized decision-making processes. Current approaches allow the extraction of relations with a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-11-18 Lars Klöser , Philipp Kohl , Bodo Kraft , Albert Zündorf

Information extraction (IE) aims to extract structural knowledge from plain natural language texts. Recently, generative Large Language Models (LLMs) have demonstrated remarkable capabilities in text understanding and generation. As a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-11-01 Derong Xu , Wei Chen , Wenjun Peng , Chao Zhang , Tong Xu , Xiangyu Zhao , Xian Wu , Yefeng Zheng , Yang Wang , Enhong Chen

Recent advances in machine learning have significantly impacted the field of information extraction, with Language Models (LMs) playing a pivotal role in extracting structured information from unstructured text. Prior works typically…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-10-03 Haolun Wu , Ye Yuan , Liana Mikaelyan , Alexander Meulemans , Xue Liu , James Hensman , Bhaskar Mitra

This study introduces and empirically tests a novel predictive model for digital information engagement (IE) - the READ model, an acronym for the four pivotal attributes of engaging information: Representativeness, Ease-of-use, Affect, and…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2023-07-28 Nimrod Dvir , Elaine Friedman , Suraj Commuri , Fan yang , Jennifer Romano