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Keyphrase extraction is one of the essential tasks for document understanding in NLP. While the majority of the prior works are dedicated to the formal setting, e.g., books, news or web-blogs, informal texts such as video transcripts are…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-09-13 Amir Pouran Ben Veyseh , Nicole Meister , Franck Dernoncourt , Thien Huu Nguyen

In document-level event extraction (DEE) task, event arguments always scatter across sentences (across-sentence issue) and multiple events may lie in one document (multi-event issue). In this paper, we argue that the relation information of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-06-08 Yuan Liang , Zhuoxuan Jiang , Di Yin , Bo Ren

Biomedical Event Extraction (BEE) is a challenging task that involves modeling complex relationships between fine-grained entities in biomedical text. BEE has traditionally been formulated as a classification problem. With recent…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-02-24 Haohan Yuan , Siu Cheung Hui , Haopeng Zhang

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

Event Extraction (EE), aiming to identify and classify event triggers and arguments from event mentions, has benefited from pre-trained language models (PLMs). However, existing PLM-based methods ignore the information of trigger/argument…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-05-22 Xingyu Bai , Taiqiang Wu , Han Guo , Zhe Zhao , Xuefeng Yang , Jiayi Li , Weijie Liu , Qi Ju , Weigang Guo , Yujiu Yang

Modern models for event causality identification (ECI) are mainly based on supervised learning, which are prone to the data lacking problem. Unfortunately, the existing NLP-related augmentation methods cannot directly produce the available…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-06-04 Xinyu Zuo , Pengfei Cao , Yubo Chen , Kang Liu , Jun Zhao , Weihua Peng , Yuguang Chen

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

Nested Event Extraction (NEE) aims to extract complex event structures where an event contains other events as its arguments recursively. Nested events involve a kind of Pivot Elements (PEs) that simultaneously act as arguments of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-04-09 Weicheng Ren , Zixuan Li , Xiaolong Jin , Long Bai , Miao Su , Yantao Liu , Saiping Guan , Jiafeng Guo , Xueqi Cheng

This work aims to delve deeper into prompt-based event argument extraction (EAE) models. We explore the impact of incorporating various types of information into the prompt on model performance, including trigger, other role arguments for…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-01-14 Chen Liang

Extracting event temporal relations is a critical task for information extraction and plays an important role in natural language understanding. Prior systems leverage deep learning and pre-trained language models to improve the performance…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-10-07 Rujun Han , Yichao Zhou , Nanyun Peng

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 (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

Social platforms have emerged as crucial platforms for distributing information and discussing social events, offering researchers an excellent opportunity to design and implement novel event detection frameworks. Identifying unspecified…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-06-12 Mohammadali Sefidi Esfahani , Mohammad Akbari

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

Fully understanding narratives often requires identifying events in the context of whole documents and modeling the event relations. However, document-level event extraction is a challenging task as it requires the extraction of event and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-05-11 Kung-Hsiang Huang , Nanyun Peng

Document-level event extraction (DEE) faces two main challenges: arguments-scattering and multi-event. Although previous methods attempt to address these challenges, they overlook the interference of event-unrelated sentences during event…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-17 Gang Zhao , Yidong Shi , Shudong Lu , Xinjie Yang , Guanting Dong , Jian Xu , Xiaocheng Gong , Si Li

Robust visualization of complex data is critical for the effective use of NLP for event classification, as the volume of data is large and the high-dimensional structure of text makes data challenging to summarize succinctly. In event…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-06-15 Sophia Henn , Abigail Sticha , Timothy Burley , Ernesto Verdeja , Paul Brenner

Event Extraction (EE) is one of the fundamental tasks in Information Extraction (IE) that aims to recognize event mentions and their arguments (i.e., participants) from text. Due to its importance, extensive methods and resources have been…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-11-21 Amir Pouran Ben Veyseh , Javid Ebrahimi , Franck Dernoncourt , Thien Huu Nguyen

For many new application domains for data-to-text generation, the main obstacle in training neural models consists of a lack of training data. While usually large numbers of instances are available on the data side, often only very few text…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-02-09 Ernie Chang , Xiaoyu Shen , Dawei Zhu , Vera Demberg , Hui Su

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