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Multimedia Event Extraction (MEE) aims to identify events and their arguments from documents that contain both text and images. It requires grounding event semantics across different modalities. Progress in MEE is limited by the lack of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-28 Yongkang Jin , Jianwen Luo , Jingjing Wang , Jianmin Yao , Yu Hong

Large Language Models (LLMs) demonstrate significant capabilities in processing natural language data, promising efficient knowledge extraction from diverse textual sources to enhance situational awareness and support decision-making.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-06-04 Fatemeh Shiri , Van Nguyen , Farhad Moghimifar , John Yoo , Gholamreza Haffari , Yuan-Fang Li

Event extraction (EE) is one of the core information extraction tasks, whose purpose is to automatically identify and extract information about incidents and their actors from texts. This may be beneficial to several domains such as…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-29 Ali Balali , Masoud Asadpour , Ricardo Campos , Adam Jatowt

Event Extraction (EE) involves automatically identifying and extracting structured information about events from unstructured text, including triggers, event types, and arguments. Traditional discriminative models demonstrate high precision…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-08-28 Fatemeh Haji , Mazal Bethany , Cho-Yu Jason Chiang , Anthony Rios , Peyman Najafirad

Document-level event argument extraction (DEAE) is essential for knowledge acquisition, aiming to extract participants of events from documents . In the zero-shot setting, existing methods employ LLMs to generate synthetic data to address…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-03-05 Guangjun Zhang , Hu Zhang , Yazhou Han , Yue Fan , Yuhang Shao , Ru Li , Hongye Tan

Event extraction is essential for event understanding and analysis. It supports tasks such as document summarization and decision-making in emergency scenarios. However, existing event extraction approaches have limitations: (1)…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-24 Praval Sharma

Document-level Event Argument Extraction (EAE) faces two challenges due to increased input length: 1) difficulty in distinguishing semantic boundaries between events, and 2) interference from redundant information. To address these issues,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-11-12 Jiaren Peng , Hongda Sun , Wenzhong Yang , Fuyuan Wei , Liang He , Liejun Wang

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

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), 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

Event extraction (EE) has considerably benefited from pre-trained language models (PLMs) by fine-tuning. However, existing pre-training methods have not involved modeling event characteristics, resulting in the developed EE models cannot…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-06-01 Ziqi Wang , Xiaozhi Wang , Xu Han , Yankai Lin , Lei Hou , Zhiyuan Liu , Peng Li , Juanzi Li , Jie 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

Document-level Event Argument Extraction (EAE) requires the model to extract arguments of multiple events from a single document. Considering the underlying dependencies between these events, recent efforts leverage the idea of "memory",…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-26 Quzhe Huang , Yanxi Zhang , Dongyan Zhao

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 Causality Identification (ECI) requires models to determine whether a given pair of events in a context exhibits a causal relationship. While Large Language Models (LLMs) have demonstrated strong performance across various NLP tasks,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-06 Zhifeng Hao , Zhongjie Chen , Junhao Lu , Shengyin Yu , Guimin Hu , Keli Zhang , Ruichu Cai , Boyan Xu

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

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

Nested Event Extraction (NEE) aims to extract complex event structures where an event contains other events as its arguments recursively. Nested events involve a kind of Pivot Elements (PEs) that simultaneously act as arguments of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-04-09 Weicheng Ren , Zixuan Li , Xiaolong Jin , Long Bai , Miao Su , Yantao Liu , Saiping Guan , Jiafeng Guo , Xueqi Cheng

In the contemporary digital landscape, media content stands as the foundation for political news analysis, offering invaluable insights sourced from various channels like news articles, social media updates, speeches, and reports. Natural…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-02-25 Muhammad Arslan , Saba Munawar , Christophe Cruz

Event extraction (EE) plays an important role in many industrial application scenarios, and high-quality EE methods require a large amount of manual annotation data to train supervised learning models. However, the cost of obtaining…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-03-21 Shirong Shen , Zhen Li , Guilin Qi