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Temporal information has been the focus of recent attention in information extraction, leading to some standardization effort, in particular for the task of relating events in a text. This task raises the problem of comparing two…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2014-01-17 Xavier Tannier , Philippe Muller

Temporal graph neural networks (TGNNs) have shown remarkable performance in temporal graph modeling. However, real-world temporal graphs often possess rich textual information, giving rise to temporal text-attributed graphs (TTAGs). Such…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-09-25 Siwei Zhang , Yun Xiong , Yateng Tang , Jiarong Xu , Xi Chen , Zehao Gu , Xuezheng Hao , Zian Jia , Jiawei Zhang

A principal barrier to training temporal relation extraction models in new domains is the lack of varied, high quality examples and the challenge of collecting more. We present a method of automatically collecting distantly-supervised…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-09-16 Xinyu Zhao , Shih-ting Lin , Greg Durrett

The recent advancement of pre-trained Transformer models has propelled the development of effective text mining models across various biomedical tasks. However, these models are primarily learned on the textual data and often lack the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-07-02 Sriram Pingali , Shweta Yadav , Pratik Dutta , Sriparna Saha

Dialogue relation extraction (DRE) aims to detect the relation between two entities mentioned in a multi-party dialogue. It plays an important role in constructing knowledge graphs from conversational data increasingly abundant on the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-06-22 Hui Chen , Pengfei Hong , Wei Han , Navonil Majumder , Soujanya Poria

A timeline provides a total ordering of events and times, and is useful for a number of natural language understanding tasks. However, qualitative temporal graphs that can be derived directly from text -- such as TimeML annotations --…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-06-11 Mustafa Ocal , Ning Xie , Mark Finlayson

Transformer-based language models usually treat texts as linear sequences. However, most texts also have an inherent hierarchical structure, i.e., parts of a text can be identified using their position in this hierarchy. In addition,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-01-30 Qian Ruan , Malte Ostendorff , Georg Rehm

Information Extraction (IE) is crucial for converting unstructured data into structured formats like Knowledge Graphs (KGs). A key task within IE is Relation Extraction (RE), which identifies relationships between entities in text. Various…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-06-25 Sefika Efeoglu , Adrian Paschke

Identifying temporal relations between events is an essential step towards natural language understanding. However, the temporal relation between two events in a story depends on, and is often dictated by, relations among other events.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-06-13 Qiang Ning , Zhili Feng , Dan Roth

Handwritten Text Recognition remains challenging due to the limited data, high writing style variance, and scripts with complex diacritics. Existing approaches, though partially address these issues, often struggle to generalize without…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-05 Pham Thach Thanh Truc , Dang Hoai Nam , Huynh Tong Dang Khoa , Vo Nguyen Le Duy

Background: Identifying relationships between clinical events and temporal expressions is a key challenge in meaningfully analyzing clinical text for use in advanced AI applications. While previous studies exist, the state-of-the-art…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-04-15 Hong Guan , Jianfu Li , Hua Xu , Murthy Devarakonda

This study proposes a Transformer-based longitudinal modeling method to address challenges in clinical risk classification with heterogeneous Electronic Health Record (EHR) data, including irregular temporal patterns, large modality…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-07 Anzhuo Xie , Wei-Chen Chang

Temporal relation extraction models have thus far been hindered by a number of issues in existing temporal relation-annotated news datasets, including: (1) low inter-annotator agreement due to the lack of specificity of their annotation…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-30 Sarah Alsayyahi , Riza Batista-Navarro

We introduce a novel graph-based framework for alleviating key challenges in distantly-supervised relation extraction and demonstrate its effectiveness in the challenging and important domain of biomedical data. Specifically, we propose a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-04-08 Hao Zhang , Yang Liu , Xiaoyan Liu , Tianming Liang , Gaurav Sharma , Liang Xue , Maozu Guo

Europe's healthcare systems require enhanced interoperability and digitalization, driving a demand for innovative solutions to process legacy clinical data. This paper presents the results of our project, which aims to leverage Large…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-07-09 Aynur Guluzade , Naguib Heiba , Zeyd Boukhers , Florim Hamiti , Jahid Hasan Polash , Yehya Mohamad , Carlos A Velasco

Extracting temporal relations (before, after, overlapping, etc.) is a key aspect of understanding events described in natural language. We argue that this task would gain from the availability of a resource that provides prior knowledge in…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2018-04-18 Qiang Ning , Hao Wu , Haoruo Peng , Dan Roth

Spatial-temporal data contains rich information and has been widely studied in recent years due to the rapid development of relevant applications in many fields. For instance, medical institutions often use electrodes attached to different…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-09-15 Tiehua Zhang , Yuze Liu , Zhishu Shen , Rui Xu , Xin Chen , Xiaowei Huang , Xi Zheng

This paper presents a temporal classification method for all three subtasks of symbol segmentation, symbol recognition and relation classification in online handwritten mathematical expressions (HMEs). The classification model is trained by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-24 Cuong Tuan Nguyen , Thanh-Nghia Truong , Hung Tuan Nguyen , Masaki Nakagawa

Owing to the exponential rise in the electronic medical records, information extraction in this domain is becoming an important area of research in recent years. Relation extraction between the medical concepts such as medical problem,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-03-26 Dhanachandra Ningthoujam , Shweta Yadav , Pushpak Bhattacharyya , Asif Ekbal

Document-level relation extraction (DocRE) poses the challenge of identifying relationships between entities within a document as opposed to the traditional RE setting where a single sentence is input. Existing approaches rely on logical…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-01-23 Monika Jain , Raghava Mutharaju , Ramakanth Kavuluru , Kuldeep Singh