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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

Event Causality Identification (ECI) requires models to determine whether a given pair of events in a context exhibits a causal relationship. While Large Language Models (LLMs) have demonstrated strong performance across various NLP tasks,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-06 Zhifeng Hao , Zhongjie Chen , Junhao Lu , Shengyin Yu , Guimin Hu , Keli Zhang , Ruichu Cai , Boyan Xu

Automated entity relation extraction (RE) from literature provides an important source for constructing biomedical database, which is more efficient and extensible than manual curation. However, existing RE models usually ignore the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-06-25 Lixiang Hong , JinJian Lin , Jiang Tao , Jianyang Zeng

Event extraction (EE), which acquires structural event knowledge from texts, can be divided into two sub-tasks: event type classification and element extraction (namely identifying triggers and arguments under different role patterns). As…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-08-19 Qian Li , Shu Guo , Jia Wu , Jianxin Li , Jiawei Sheng , Lihong Wang , Xiaohan Dong , Hao Peng

We present a study on leveraging multilingual pre-trained generative language models for zero-shot cross-lingual event argument extraction (EAE). By formulating EAE as a language generation task, our method effectively encodes event…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-03-17 Kuan-Hao Huang , I-Hung Hsu , Premkumar Natarajan , Kai-Wei Chang , Nanyun Peng

Event extraction is of practical utility in natural language processing. In the real world, it is a common phenomenon that multiple events existing in the same sentence, where extracting them are more difficult than extracting a single…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-12-19 Xiao Liu , Zhunchen Luo , Heyan Huang

Electronic Health Records (EHRs) hold immense potential for advancing healthcare, offering rich, longitudinal data that combines structured information with valuable insights from unstructured clinical notes. However, the unstructured…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-01-31 Huaiyuan Ying , Hongyi Yuan , Jinsen Lu , Zitian Qu , Yang Zhao , Zhengyun Zhao , Isaac Kohane , Tianxi Cai , Sheng Yu

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

In recent years, biomedical event extraction has been dominated by complicated pipeline and joint methods, which need to be simplified. In addition, existing work has not effectively utilized trigger word information explicitly. Hence, we…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-08-15 Gongchi Chen , Pengchao Wu , Jinghang Gu , Longhua Qian , Guodong Zhou

Financial event entity extraction is a crucial task for analyzing market dynamics and building financial knowledge graphs, yet it presents significant challenges due to the specialized language and complex structures in financial texts.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-04-22 Soo-joon Choi , Ji-jun Park

Motivation: Biomedical event detection is fundamental for information extraction in molecular biology and biomedical research. The detected events form the central basis for comprehensive biomedical knowledge fusion, facilitating the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-05-06 Shankai Yan , Ka-Chun Wong

Document-level Event Argument Extraction (EAE) requires the model to extract arguments of multiple events from a single document. Considering the underlying dependencies between these events, recent efforts leverage the idea of "memory",…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-26 Quzhe Huang , Yanxi Zhang , Dongyan Zhao

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

Event extraction for the clinical domain is an under-explored research area. The lack of training data along with the high volume of domain-specific terminologies with vague entity boundaries makes the task especially challenging. In this…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-05-26 Mingyu Derek Ma , Alexander K. Taylor , Wei Wang , Nanyun Peng

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

Event extraction has gained considerable interest due to its wide-ranging applications. However, recent studies draw attention to evaluation issues, suggesting that reported scores may not accurately reflect the true performance. In this…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-06-07 Kuan-Hao Huang , I-Hung Hsu , Tanmay Parekh , Zhiyu Xie , Zixuan Zhang , Premkumar Natarajan , Kai-Wei Chang , Nanyun Peng , Heng Ji

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

Information extraction techniques, including named entity recognition (NER) and relation extraction (RE), are crucial in many domains to support making sense of vast amounts of unstructured text data by identifying and connecting relevant…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-01-17 Mingjie Li , Karin Verspoor

Structured and grounded representation of text is typically formalized by closed information extraction, the problem of extracting an exhaustive set of (subject, relation, object) triplets that are consistent with a predefined set of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-04-14 Martin Josifoski , Nicola De Cao , Maxime Peyrard , Fabio Petroni , Robert West

Capturing interactions among event arguments is an essential step towards robust event argument extraction (EAE). However, existing efforts in this direction suffer from two limitations: 1) The argument role type information of contextual…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-07-02 Xiangyu Xi , Wei Ye , Shikun Zhang , Quanxiu Wang , Huixing Jiang , Wei Wu