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Learning causal and temporal relationships between events is an important step towards deeper story and commonsense understanding. Though there are abundant datasets annotated with event relations for story comprehension, many have no…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-04-29 Rujun Han , Mengyue Liang , Bashar Alhafni , Nanyun Peng

Temporal Point Processes (TPPs) are often used to represent the sequence of events ordered as per the time of occurrence. Owing to their flexible nature, TPPs have been used to model different scenarios and have shown applicability in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-07-19 Shivshankar Reddy , Anand Vir Singh Chauhan , Maneet Singh , Karamjit Singh

We propose a novel framework for modeling event-related potentials (ERPs) collected during reading that couples pre-trained convolutional decoders with a language model. Using this framework, we compare the abilities of a variety of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-04-03 Shaorong Yan , Aaron Steven White

The rapid expansion of digital information and knowledge across structured and unstructured sources has heightened the importance of Information Retrieval (IR). While dense retrieval methods have substantially improved semantic matching for…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-07-10 SeungYoon Han , Taeho Hwang , Sukmin Cho , Soyeong Jeong , Hoyun Song , Huije Lee , Jong C. Park

This paper presents LLM4ES, a novel framework that exploits large pre-trained language models (LLMs) to derive user embeddings from event sequences. Event sequences are transformed into a textual representation, which is subsequently used…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-12-18 Aleksei Shestov , Omar Zoloev , Maksim Makarenko , Mikhail Orlov , Egor Fadeev , Ivan Kireev , Andrey Savchenko

Data-driven models have demonstrated state-of-the-art performance in inferring the temporal ordering of events in text. However, these models often overlook explicit temporal signals, such as dates and time windows. Rule-based methods can…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-06-21 Tanya Goyal , Greg Durrett

Embeddings of words and concepts capture syntactic and semantic regularities of language; however, they have seen limited use as tools to study characteristics of different corpora and how they relate to one another. We introduce…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-03-23 Denis Newman-Griffis , Venkatesh Sivaraman , Adam Perer , Eric Fosler-Lussier , Harry Hochheiser

Retrieval augmentation has become an effective solution to empower large language models (LLMs) with external and verified knowledge sources from the database, which overcomes the limitations and hallucinations of LLMs in handling…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-11-21 Tong Wu , Yulei Qin , Enwei Zhang , Zihan Xu , Yuting Gao , Ke Li , Xing Sun

Large language models (LLMs) can generate fluent clinical summaries of remote therapeutic monitoring time series. However, it remains unclear whether these narratives faithfully capture clinically significant events, such as sustained…

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Social media is becoming a primary medium to discuss what is happening around the world. Therefore, the data generated by social media platforms contain rich information which describes the ongoing events. Further, the timeliness associated…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-05-27 Hansi Hettiarachchi , Mariam Adedoyin-Olowe , Jagdev Bhogal , Mohamed Medhat Gaber

Newsworthy events are broadcast through multiple mediums and prompt the crowds to produce comments on social media. In this paper, we propose to leverage on this behavioral dynamics to estimate the most relevant time periods for an event…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2018-12-18 Flávio Martins , João Magalhães , Jamie Callan

We introduce DanmakuTPPBench, a comprehensive benchmark designed to advance multi-modal Temporal Point Process (TPP) modeling in the era of Large Language Models (LLMs). While TPPs have been widely studied for modeling temporal event…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-10-22 Yue Jiang , Jichu Li , Yang Liu , Dingkang Yang , Feng Zhou , Quyu Kong

Temporal point processes (TPPs) are stochastic process models used to characterize event sequences occurring in continuous time. Traditional statistical TPPs have a long-standing history, with numerous models proposed and successfully…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-30 Feng Zhou , Quyu Kong , Jie Qiao , Cheng Wan , Yixuan Zhang , Ruichu Cai

It is unclear whether strong forecasting performance reflects genuine temporal understanding or the ability to reason under contextual and event-driven conditions. We introduce TemporalBench, a multi-domain benchmark designed to evaluate…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-02-17 Muyan Weng , Defu Cao , Wei Yang , Yashaswi Sharma , Yan Liu

Recent advancements in language models have started a new era of superior information retrieval and content generation, with embedding models playing an important role in optimizing data representation efficiency and performance. While…

Large language models (LLMs) have achieved remarkable success across various domains, but effectively incorporating complex and potentially noisy user timeline data into LLMs remains a challenge. Current approaches often involve translating…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-09-11 Lin Ning , Luyang Liu , Jiaxing Wu , Neo Wu , Devora Berlowitz , Sushant Prakash , Bradley Green , Shawn O'Banion , Jun Xie

In this paper, we introduce Technical-Embeddings, a novel framework designed to optimize semantic retrieval in technical documentation, with applications in both hardware and software development. Our approach addresses the challenges of…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-09-05 Songjiang Lai , Tsun-Hin Cheung , Ka-Chun Fung , Kaiwen Xue , Kwan-Ho Lin , Yan-Ming Choi , Vincent Ng , Kin-Man Lam

Beyond general web-scale search, social network search uniquely enables users to retrieve information and discover potential connections within their social context. We introduce a framework of modernized Facebook Group Scoped Search by…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-09-18 Yongye Su , Zeya Zhang , Jane Kou , Cheng Ju , Shubhojeet Sarkar , Yamin Wang , Ji Liu , Shengbo Guo

Facts change over time, making it essential for Large Language Models (LLMs) to handle time-sensitive factual knowledge accurately and reliably. Although factual Time-Sensitive Question-Answering (TSQA) tasks have been widely developed,…

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