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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…

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Event linking connects event mentions in text with relevant nodes in a knowledge base (KB). Prior research in event linking has mainly borrowed methods from entity linking, overlooking the distinct features of events. Compared to the…

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Conventional approaches to relation extraction usually require a fixed set of pre-defined relations. Such requirement is hard to meet in many real applications, especially when new data and relations are emerging incessantly and it is…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-03-27 Hong Wang , Wenhan Xiong , Mo Yu , Xiaoxiao Guo , Shiyu Chang , William Yang Wang

Extracting event temporal relations is a critical task for information extraction and plays an important role in natural language understanding. Prior systems leverage deep learning and pre-trained language models to improve the performance…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-10-07 Rujun Han , Yichao Zhou , Nanyun Peng

Joint-event-extraction, which extracts structural information (i.e., entities or triggers of events) from unstructured real-world corpora, has attracted more and more research attention in natural language processing. Most existing works do…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-10-15 Yue Wang , Zhuo Xu , Lu Bai , Yao Wan , Lixin Cui , Qian Zhao , Edwin R. Hancock , Philip S. Yu

Continual relation extraction is an important task that focuses on extracting new facts incrementally from unstructured text. Given the sequential arrival order of the relations, this task is prone to two serious challenges, namely…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-01-11 Tongtong Wu , Xuekai Li , Yuan-Fang Li , Reza Haffari , Guilin Qi , Yujin Zhu , Guoqiang Xu

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 recognition systems rely on properly engineered knowledge bases of event definitions to infer occurrences of events in time. The manual development of such knowledge is a tedious and error-prone task, thus event-based applications may…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2014-11-25 Nikos Katzouris , Alexander Artikis , George Paliouras

Despite the fact that large language models (LLMs) show exceptional skill in instruction following tasks, this strength can turn into a vulnerability when the models are required to disregard certain instructions. Instruction-following…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-08-12 Yerin Hwang , Yongil Kim , Jahyun Koo , Taegwan Kang , Hyunkyung Bae , Kyomin Jung

In the current landscape of large language models (LLMs), the process of instruction tuning serves as an essential step. Considering the high computing power overhead, data-efficient instruction tuning was proposed to reduce the training…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-01-06 Qi Zhang , Yiming Zhang , Haobo Wang , Junbo Zhao

We propose a joint event and temporal relation extraction model with shared representation learning and structured prediction. The proposed method has two advantages over existing work. First, it improves event representation by allowing…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-09-17 Rujun Han , Qiang Ning , Nanyun Peng

Relation extraction (RE) aims to identify relations between entities mentioned in texts. Although large language models (LLMs) have demonstrated impressive in-context learning (ICL) abilities in various tasks, they still suffer from poor…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-04-30 Guozheng Li , Peng Wang , Wenjun Ke , Yikai Guo , Ke Ji , Ziyu Shang , Jiajun Liu , Zijie Xu

Instruction-following is a critical capability of Large Language Models (LLMs). While existing works primarily focus on assessing how well LLMs adhere to user instructions, they often overlook scenarios where instructions contain…

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The multi-format information extraction task in the 2021 Language and Intelligence Challenge is designed to comprehensively evaluate information extraction from different dimensions. It consists of an multiple slots relation extraction…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-08-17 Yaduo Liu , Longhui Zhang , Shujuan Yin , Xiaofeng Zhao , Feiliang Ren

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

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

The task of event extraction has long been investigated in a supervised learning paradigm, which is bound by the number and the quality of the training instances. Existing training data must be manually generated through a combination of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-12-12 Ying Zeng , Yansong Feng , Rong Ma , Zheng Wang , Rui Yan , Chongde Shi , Dongyan Zhao

Despite the critical need to align search targets with users' intention, retrievers often only prioritize query information without delving into the users' intended search context. Enhancing the capability of retrievers to understand…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-02-23 Hanseok Oh , Hyunji Lee , Seonghyeon Ye , Haebin Shin , Hansol Jang , Changwook Jun , Minjoon Seo

Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) has emerged as a key paradigm for enhancing large language models (LLMs) by incorporating external knowledge. However, current RAG methods face two limitations: (1) they only cover limited RAG scenarios.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-01-03 Wanlong Liu , Junying Chen , Ke Ji , Li Zhou , Wenyu Chen , Benyou Wang

User prompts to large language models (LLMs) are often ambiguous or under-specified, and subtle contextual cues shaped by user intentions, prior knowledge, and risk factors strongly influence what constitutes an appropriate response.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-16 Minseon Kim , Lucas Caccia , Zhengyan Shi , Matheus Pereira , Marc-Alexandre Côté , Xingdi Yuan , Alessandro Sordoni