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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

Most modern Information Extraction (IE) systems are implemented as sequential taggers and only model local dependencies. Non-local and non-sequential context is, however, a valuable source of information to improve predictions. In this…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-04-08 Yujie Qian , Enrico Santus , Zhijing Jin , Jiang Guo , Regina Barzilay

Most successful information extraction systems operate with access to a large collection of documents. In this work, we explore the task of acquiring and incorporating external evidence to improve extraction accuracy in domains where the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2016-09-29 Karthik Narasimhan , Adam Yala , Regina Barzilay

Information extraction (IE) from unstructured documents remains a critical challenge in data processing pipelines. Traditional optical character recognition (OCR) methods and conventional parsing engines demonstrate limited effectiveness…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-28 Aditya Parikh

This paper defines and explores the design space for information extraction (IE) from layout-rich documents using large language models (LLMs). The three core challenges of layout-aware IE with LLMs are 1) data structuring, 2) model…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-02-04 Gaye Colakoglu , Gürkan Solmaz , Jonathan Fürst

Information extraction tasks such as event extraction require an in-depth understanding of the output structure and sub-task dependencies. They heavily rely on task-specific training data in the form of (passage, target structure) pairs to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-02-22 Mingyu Derek Ma , Xiaoxuan Wang , Po-Nien Kung , P. Jeffrey Brantingham , Nanyun Peng , Wei Wang

The work presented in this master thesis consists of extracting a set of events from texts written in natural language. For this purpose, we have based ourselves on the basic notions of the information extraction as well as the open…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-07-03 Sihem Sahnoun

Event extraction (EE) is a crucial research task for promptly apprehending event information from massive textual data. With the rapid development of deep learning, EE based on deep learning technology has become a research hotspot.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-11-16 Qian Li , Jianxin Li , Jiawei Sheng , Shiyao Cui , Jia Wu , Yiming Hei , Hao Peng , Shu Guo , Lihong Wang , Amin Beheshti , Philip S. Yu

Large language models have unlocked strong multi-task capabilities from reading instructive prompts. However, recent studies have shown that existing large models still have difficulty with information extraction tasks. For example,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-04-18 Xiao Wang , Weikang Zhou , Can Zu , Han Xia , Tianze Chen , Yuansen Zhang , Rui Zheng , Junjie Ye , Qi Zhang , Tao Gui , Jihua Kang , Jingsheng Yang , Siyuan Li , Chunsai Du

Universally modeling all typical information extraction tasks (UIE) with one generative language model (GLM) has revealed great potential by the latest study, where various IE predictions are unified into a linearized hierarchical…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-04-14 Hao Fei , Shengqiong Wu , Jingye Li , Bobo Li , Fei Li , Libo Qin , Meishan Zhang , Min Zhang , Tat-Seng Chua

We propose a general framework for sequential and dynamic acquisition of useful information in order to solve a particular task. While our goal could in principle be tackled by general reinforcement learning, our particular setting is…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2016-02-09 He He , Paul Mineiro , Nikos Karampatziakis

Large language models (LLMs) usually fall short on information extraction (IE) tasks and struggle to follow the complex instructions of IE tasks. This primarily arises from LLMs not being aligned with humans, as mainstream alignment…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-10-25 Yunjia Qi , Hao Peng , Xiaozhi Wang , Bin Xu , Lei Hou , Juanzi Li

LLM-based universal information extraction (UIE) methods often rely on additional information beyond the original training data, which increases training complexity yet often yields limited gains. To address this, we propose ProUIE, a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Wenda Liu , Zhigang Song , Shuai Nie , Guangyao Liu , Lisung Chen , Binyu Yang , Yaran Chen , Peng Zhou , Hongzhen Wang , Yuchen Liu , Wenyue Hu , Jiaming Xu , Runyu Shi , Ying Huang

This paper concerns an Information Extraction process for building a dynamic Legislation Network from legal documents. Unlike supervised learning approaches which require additional calculations, the idea here is to apply Information…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2020-06-16 Neda Sakhaee , Mark C Wilson

Temporal information extraction (IE) aims to extract structured temporal information from unstructured text, thereby uncovering the implicit timelines within. This technique is applied across domains such as healthcare, newswire, and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-04-11 Xin Su , Phillip Howard , Steven Bethard

Open Information Extraction (OIE) task aims at extracting structured facts from unstructured text, typically in the form of (subject, relation, object) triples. Despite the potential of large language models (LLMs) like ChatGPT as a general…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-09-08 Chen Ling , Xujiang Zhao , Xuchao Zhang , Yanchi Liu , Wei Cheng , Haoyu Wang , Zhengzhang Chen , Takao Osaki , Katsushi Matsuda , Haifeng Chen , Liang Zhao

Event extraction (EE) is a critical direction in the field of information extraction, laying an important foundation for the construction of structured knowledge bases. EE from text has received ample research and attention for years, yet…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2024-08-26 Bin Wang , Meishan Zhang , Hao Fei , Yu Zhao , Bobo Li , Shengqiong Wu , Wei Ji , Min Zhang

Large Language Models (LLMs) demonstrate exceptional performance in textual understanding and tabular reasoning tasks. However, their ability to comprehend and analyze hybrid text, containing textual and tabular data, remains unexplored.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-01-03 Chongjian Yue , Xinrun Xu , Xiaojun Ma , Lun Du , Zhiming Ding , Shi Han , Dongmei Zhang , Qi Zhang

Interactive data exploration (IDE) is an effective way of comprehending big data, whose volume and complexity are beyond human abilities. The main goal of IDE is to discover user interest regions from a database through multi-rounds of user…

Databases · Computer Science 2023-01-03 Yukun Cao , Xike Xie , Kexin Huang

Information Extraction (IE) is an essential task in Natural Language Processing. Traditional methods have relied on coarse-grained extraction with simple instructions. However, with the emergence of Large Language Models (LLMs), there is a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-10 Jun Gao , Huan Zhao , Yice Zhang , Wei Wang , Changlong Yu , Ruifeng Xu