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A Survey on Deep Learning Event Extraction: Approaches and Applications

Computation and Language 2022-11-16 v6

Abstract

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. Numerous methods, datasets, and evaluation metrics have been proposed in the literature, raising the need for a comprehensive and updated survey. This article fills the research gap by reviewing the state-of-the-art approaches, especially focusing on the general domain EE based on deep learning models. We introduce a new literature classification of current general domain EE research according to the task definition. Afterward, we summarize the paradigm and models of EE approaches, and then discuss each of them in detail. As an important aspect, we summarize the benchmarks that support tests of predictions and evaluation metrics. A comprehensive comparison among different approaches is also provided in this survey. Finally, we conclude by summarizing future research directions facing the research area.

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@article{arxiv.2107.02126,
  title  = {A Survey on Deep Learning Event Extraction: Approaches and Applications},
  author = {Qian Li and Jianxin Li and Jiawei Sheng and Shiyao Cui and Jia Wu and Yiming Hei and Hao Peng and Shu Guo and Lihong Wang and Amin Beheshti and Philip S. Yu},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2107.02126},
  year   = {2022}
}
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