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In this study, we present EventRL, a reinforcement learning approach developed to enhance event extraction for large language models (LLMs). EventRL utilizes outcome supervision with specific reward functions to tackle prevalent challenges…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-02-20 Jun Gao , Huan Zhao , Wei Wang , Changlong Yu , Ruifeng Xu

The traditional data annotation process is often labor-intensive, time-consuming, and susceptible to human bias, which complicates the management of increasingly complex datasets. This study explores the potential of large language models…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-09-17 Jianfei Wu , Xubin Wang , Weijia Jia

Large Language Models (LLMs) have exhibited remarkable capabilities across diverse domains, prompting investigations into their potential as generic reasoning engines. While recent studies have explored inference-time computation to enhance…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-02-18 Zi Wang , Shiwei Weng , Mohannad Alhanahnah , Somesh Jha , Tom Reps

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

Event annotation is important for identifying market changes, monitoring breaking news, and understanding sociological trends. Although expert annotators set the gold standards, human coding is expensive and inefficient. Unlike information…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-29 Feng Gu , Zongxia Li , Carlos Rafael Colon , Benjamin Evans , Ishani Mondal , Jordan Lee Boyd-Graber

Information extraction (IE) aims to extract structural knowledge from plain natural language texts. Recently, generative Large Language Models (LLMs) have demonstrated remarkable capabilities in text understanding and generation. As a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-11-01 Derong Xu , Wei Chen , Wenjun Peng , Chao Zhang , Tong Xu , Xiangyu Zhao , Xian Wu , Yefeng Zheng , Yang Wang , Enhong Chen

Document-level event extraction (DEE) faces two main challenges: arguments-scattering and multi-event. Although previous methods attempt to address these challenges, they overlook the interference of event-unrelated sentences during event…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-17 Gang Zhao , Yidong Shi , Shudong Lu , Xinjie Yang , Guanting Dong , Jian Xu , Xiaocheng Gong , Si Li

Human-like large language models (LLMs), especially the most powerful and popular ones in OpenAI's GPT family, have proven to be very helpful for many natural language processing (NLP) related tasks. Therefore, various attempts have been…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-09-11 Ridong Han , Chaohao Yang , Tao Peng , Prayag Tiwari , Xiang Wan , Lu Liu , Benyou Wang

Human-like large language models (LLMs), especially the most powerful and popular ones in OpenAI's GPT family, have proven to be very helpful for many natural language processing (NLP) related tasks. Therefore, various attempts have been…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-09-12 Ridong Han , Chaohao Yang , Tao Peng , Prayag Tiwari , Xiang Wan , Lu Liu , Benyou Wang

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

Open Information Extraction (OIE) task aims at extracting structured facts from unstructured text, typically in the form of (subject, relation, object) triples. Despite the potential of large language models (LLMs) like ChatGPT as a general…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-09-08 Chen Ling , Xujiang Zhao , Xuchao Zhang , Yanchi Liu , Wei Cheng , Haoyu Wang , Zhengzhang Chen , Takao Osaki , Katsushi Matsuda , Haifeng Chen , Liang Zhao

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

This paper defines and explores the design space for information extraction (IE) from layout-rich documents using large language models (LLMs). The three core challenges of layout-aware IE with LLMs are 1) data structuring, 2) model…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-02-04 Gaye Colakoglu , Gürkan Solmaz , Jonathan Fürst

Backgrounds: Information extraction (IE) is critical in clinical natural language processing (NLP). While large language models (LLMs) excel on generative tasks, their performance on extractive tasks remains debated. Methods: We…

In this paper, we propose an effective yet efficient model PAIE for both sentence-level and document-level Event Argument Extraction (EAE), which also generalizes well when there is a lack of training data. On the one hand, PAIE utilizes…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-03-29 Yubo Ma , Zehao Wang , Yixin Cao , Mukai Li , Meiqi Chen , Kun Wang , Jing Shao

Event argument extraction (EAE) is an important task for information extraction to discover specific argument roles. In this study, we cast EAE as a question-based cloze task and empirically analyze fixed discrete token template…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-01-26 Hongbin Ye , Ningyu Zhang , Zhen Bi , Shumin Deng , Chuanqi Tan , Hui Chen , Fei Huang , Huajun Chen

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

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

Open Information Extraction (OIE) aims to extract objective structured knowledge from natural texts, which has attracted growing attention to build dedicated models with human experience. As the large language models (LLMs) have exhibited…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-17 Ji Qi , Kaixuan Ji , Xiaozhi Wang , Jifan Yu , Kaisheng Zeng , Lei Hou , Juanzi Li , Bin Xu

We extract mathematical concepts from mathematical text using generative large language models (LLMs) like ChatGPT, contributing to the field of automatic term extraction (ATE) and mathematical text processing, and also to the study of LLMs…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-09-06 Valeria de Paiva , Qiyue Gao , Pavel Kovalev , Lawrence S. Moss