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Recent work on Event Extraction has reframed the task as Question Answering (QA), with promising results. The advantage of this approach is that it addresses the error propagation issue found in traditional token-based classification…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-07-13 Di Lu , Shihao Ran , Joel Tetreault , Alejandro Jaimes

Document-level event extraction is a long-standing challenging information retrieval problem involving a sequence of sub-tasks: entity extraction, event type judgment, and event type-specific multi-event extraction. However, addressing the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-07-03 Qizhi Wan , Changxuan Wan , Keli Xiao , Hui Xiong , Dexi Liu , Xiping Liu

The task of event extraction (EE) aims to find the events and event-related argument information from the text and represent them in a structured format. Most previous works try to solve the problem by separately identifying multiple…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-11-23 Alapan Kuila , Sudeshan Sarkar

Event Extraction (EE) is one of the essential tasks in information extraction, which aims to detect event mentions from text and find the corresponding argument roles. The EE task can be abstracted as a process of matching the semantic…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-06-07 Haochen Li , Tianhao Gao , Jingkun Wang , Weiping Li

We present a system for rapidly customizing event extraction capability to find new event types and their arguments. The system allows a user to find, expand and filter event triggers for a new event type by exploring an unannotated corpus.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-09-24 Yee Seng Chan , Joshua Fasching , Haoling Qiu , Bonan Min

Event Extraction bridges the gap between text and event signals. Based on the assumption of trigger-argument dependency, existing approaches have achieved state-of-the-art performance with expert-designed templates or complicated decoding…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-02-16 Jinghui Si , Xutan Peng , Chen Li , Haotian Xu , Jianxin Li

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

Event-argument extraction is a challenging task, particularly in Arabic due to sparse linguistic resources. To fill this gap, we introduce the \hadath corpus ($550$k tokens) as an extension of Wojood, enriched with event-argument…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-08-01 Alaa Aljabari , Lina Duaibes , Mustafa Jarrar , Mohammed Khalilia

Open Information Extraction (Open IE) is the task of extracting structured information from textual documents, independent of domain. While traditional Open IE methods were based on unsupervised approaches, recently, with the emergence of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-01-22 Marlo Souza , Bruno Cabral , Daniela Claro , Lais Salvador

Event extraction is a fundamental task in natural language processing that involves identifying and extracting information about events mentioned in text. However, it is a challenging task due to the lack of annotated data, which is…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-03-10 Jun Gao , Huan Zhao , Changlong Yu , Ruifeng Xu

Event extraction is a fundamental task for natural language processing. Finding the roles of event arguments like event participants is essential for event extraction. However, doing so for real-life event descriptions is challenging…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-12-23 Qian Li , Hao Peng , Jianxin Li , Jia Wu , Yuanxing Ning , Lihong Wang , Philip S. Yu , Zheng Wang

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

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

Event co-occurrences have been proved effective for event extraction (EE) in previous studies, but have not been considered for event argument extraction (EAE) recently. In this paper, we try to fill this gap between EE research and EAE…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-06-02 Yuxin He , Jingyue Hu , Buzhou Tang

Event extraction is an important natural language processing (NLP) task of identifying events in an unstructured text. Although a plethora of works deal with event extraction from new articles, clinical text etc., only a few works focus on…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-02-27 Chaitanya Kirti , Ayon Chattopadhyay , Ashish Anand , Prithwijit Guha

Event extraction requires high-quality expert human annotations, which are usually expensive. Therefore, learning a data-efficient event extraction model that can be trained with only a few labeled examples has become a crucial challenge.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-05-05 I-Hung Hsu , Kuan-Hao Huang , Elizabeth Boschee , Scott Miller , Prem Natarajan , Kai-Wei Chang , Nanyun Peng

Event extraction (EE) is a crucial information extraction task that aims to extract event information in texts. Most existing methods assume that events appear in sentences without overlaps, which are not applicable to the complicated…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-07-06 Jiawei Sheng , Shu Guo , Bowen Yu , Qian Li , Yiming Hei , Lihong Wang , Tingwen Liu , Hongbo Xu

Identifying events and mapping them to pre-defined event types has long been an important natural language processing problem. Most previous work has been heavily relying on labor-intensive and domain-specific annotations while ignoring the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-06-03 Hongming Zhang , Haoyu Wang , Dan Roth

Event extraction identifies the central aspects of events from text. It supports event understanding and analysis, which is crucial for tasks such as informed decision-making in emergencies. Therefore, it is necessary to develop automated…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-24 Praval Sharma , Ashok Samal , Leen-Kiat Soh , Deepti Joshi

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