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Event extraction (EE) is a critical direction in the field of information extraction, laying an important foundation for the construction of structured knowledge bases. EE from text has received ample research and attention for years, yet…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2024-08-26 Bin Wang , Meishan Zhang , Hao Fei , Yu Zhao , Bobo Li , Shengqiong Wu , Wei Ji , Min Zhang

Event argument extraction identifies arguments for predefined event roles in text. Existing work evaluates this task with exact match (EM), where predicted arguments must align exactly with annotated spans. While suitable for span-based…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-09-11 Omar Sharif , Joseph Gatto , Madhusudan Basak , Sarah M. Preum

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

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

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

Event Extraction plays an important role in information-extraction to understand the world. Event extraction could be split into two subtasks: one is event trigger extraction, the other is event arguments extraction. However, the F-Score of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-06-04 Zhigang Kan , Linbo Qiao , Sen Yang , Feng Liu , Feng Huang

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

With the advancement of multimedia technologies, news documents and user-generated content are often represented as multiple modalities, making Multimedia Event Extraction (MEE) an increasingly important challenge. However, recent MEE…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-10-03 Philipp Seeberger , Dominik Wagner , Korbinian Riedhammer

Language models can be prompted to perform a wide variety of zero- and few-shot learning problems. However, performance varies significantly with the choice of prompt, and we do not yet understand why this happens or how to pick the best…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-09-16 Hila Gonen , Srini Iyer , Terra Blevins , Noah A. Smith , Luke Zettlemoyer

Structural extraction of events within discourse is critical since it avails a deeper understanding of communication patterns and behavior trends. Event argument extraction (EAE), at the core of event-centric understanding, is the task of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-03-21 Xinliang Frederick Zhang , Carter Blum , Temma Choji , Shalin Shah , Alakananda Vempala

The active research topic of prompt engineering makes it evident that LLMs are sensitive to small changes in prompt wording. A portion of this can be ascribed to the inductive bias that is present in the LLM. By using an LLM's output as a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-08-15 Christian M. Angel , Francis Ferraro

Determining the role of event arguments is a crucial subtask of event extraction. Most previous supervised models leverage costly annotations, which is not practical for open-domain applications. In this work, we propose to use global…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-02-10 Zizheng Lin , Hongming Zhang , Yangqiu Song

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

Recent works have introduced Abstract Meaning Representation (AMR) for Document-level Event Argument Extraction (Doc-level EAE), since AMR provides a useful interpretation of complex semantic structures and helps to capture long-distance…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-05-31 Yuqing Yang , Qipeng Guo , Xiangkun Hu , Yue Zhang , Xipeng Qiu , Zheng Zhang

The problem of event extraction requires detecting the event trigger and extracting its corresponding arguments. Existing work in event argument extraction typically relies heavily on entity recognition as a preprocessing/concurrent step,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-02-08 Xinya Du , Claire Cardie

With the rapid development of information technology, online platforms have produced enormous text resources. As a particular form of Information Extraction (IE), Event Extraction (EE) has gained increasing popularity due to its ability to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-11-08 Jiangwei Liu , Liangyu Min , Xiaohong Huang

Recent works have demonstrated the effectiveness of retrieval augmentation in the Event Argument Extraction (EAE) task. However, existing retrieval-based EAE methods have two main limitations: (1) input length constraints and (2) the gap…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-09-17 Wanlong Liu , Enqi Zhang , Li Zhou , Dingyi Zeng , Shaohuan Cheng , Chen Zhang , Malu Zhang , Wenyu Chen

The text generated by large language models is commonly controlled by prompting, where a prompt prepended to a user's query guides the model's output. The prompts used by companies to guide their models are often treated as secrets, to be…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-08-09 Yiming Zhang , Nicholas Carlini , Daphne Ippolito

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

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