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We introduce event-keyed summarization (EKS), a novel task that marries traditional summarization and document-level event extraction, with the goal of generating a contextualized summary for a specific event, given a document and an…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-02-13 William Gantt , Alexander Martin , Pavlo Kuchmiichuk , Aaron Steven White

Event extraction has gained extensive research attention due to its broad range of applications. However, the current mainstream evaluation method for event extraction relies on token-level exact match, which misjudges numerous…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-03-05 Yi-Fan Lu , Xian-Ling Mao , Tian Lan , Heyan Huang , Chen Xu , Xiaoyan Gao

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

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) is a critical and fundamental challenge for natural language processing. Existing work mainly focuses on directly modeling the entire document, which cannot effectively handle long-range dependencies and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-05-14 Yong Guan , Xiaozhi Wang , Lei Hou , Juanzi Li , Jeff Pan , Jiaoyan Chen , Freddy Lecue

Event coreference continues to be a challenging problem in information extraction. With the absence of any external knowledge bases for events, coreference becomes a clustering task that relies on effective representations of the context in…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-04-09 Shafiuddin Rehan Ahmed , James H. Martin

Consumer Event-Cause Extraction, the task aimed at extracting the potential causes behind certain events in the text, has gained much attention in recent years due to its wide applications. The ICDM 2020 conference sets up an evaluation…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-04-25 Congqing He , Jie Zhang , Xiangyu Zhu , Huan Liu , Yukun Huang

Event extraction is challenging due to the complex structure of event records and the semantic gap between text and event. Traditional methods usually extract event records by decomposing the complex structure prediction task into multiple…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-06-18 Yaojie Lu , Hongyu Lin , Jin Xu , Xianpei Han , Jialong Tang , Annan Li , Le Sun , Meng Liao , Shaoyi Chen

Document understanding and information extraction include different tasks to understand a document and extract valuable information automatically. Recently, there has been a rising demand for developing document understanding among…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-08-01 Soyeon Caren Han , Yihao Ding , Siwen Luo , Josiah Poon , HeeGuen Yoon , Zhe Huang , Paul Duuring , Eun Jung Holden

Web archives are typically very broad in scope and extremely large in scale. This makes data analysis appear daunting, especially for non-computer scientists. These collections constitute an increasingly important source for researchers in…

Digital Libraries · Computer Science 2017-07-31 Gerhard Gossen , Elena Demidova , Thomas Risse

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

In today's world, we follow news which is distributed globally. Significant events are reported by different sources and in different languages. In this work, we address the problem of tracking of events in a large multilingual stream.…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2015-12-23 Jan Rupnik , Andrej Muhic , Gregor Leban , Primoz Skraba , Blaz Fortuna , Marko Grobelnik

Event extraction involves the detection and extraction of both the event triggers and corresponding event arguments. Existing systems often decompose event extraction into multiple subtasks, without considering their possible interactions.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-10-18 Huiling You , David Samuel , Samia Touileb , Lilja Øvrelid

Prior works formulate the extraction of event-specific arguments as a span extraction problem, where event arguments are explicit -- i.e. assumed to be contiguous spans of text in a document. In this study, we revisit this definition of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-10-07 Omar Sharif , Joseph Gatto , Madhusudan Basak , Sarah M. Preum

Events are essential components of speech and texts, describing the changes in the state of entities. The event extraction task aims to identify and classify events and find their participants according to event schemas. Manually predefined…

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

We introduce an advanced information extraction pipeline to automatically process very large collections of unstructured textual data for the purpose of investigative journalism. The pipeline serves as a new input processor for the upcoming…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-09-17 Gregor Wiedemann , Seid Muhie Yimam , Chris Biemann

The goal of case-based retrieval is to assist physicians in the clinical decision making process, by finding relevant medical literature in large archives. We propose a research that aims at improving the effectiveness of case-based…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2018-11-28 Stefano Marchesin

Document-level relation extraction faces two overlooked challenges: long-tail problem and multi-label problem. Previous work focuses mainly on obtaining better contextual representations for entity pairs, hardly address the above…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-12-21 Ridong Han , Tao Peng , Benyou Wang , Lu Liu , Xiang Wan

Document-level Relation Extraction (DocRE) is a more challenging task compared to its sentence-level counterpart. It aims to extract relations from multiple sentences at once. In this paper, we propose a semi-supervised framework for DocRE…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-03-22 Qingyu Tan , Ruidan He , Lidong Bing , Hwee Tou Ng

It is crucial to understand a specific domain by events. Extensive event extraction research has been conducted in many domains such as news, finance, and biology. However, event extraction in scientific domain is still insufficiently…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-28 Yi-Fan Lu , Xian-Ling Mao , Bo Wang , Xiao Liu , Heyan Huang