Utilizing Contextual Clues and Role Correlations for Enhancing Document-level Event Argument Extraction

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Main Authors: Liu, Wanlong, Zeng, Dingyi, Zhou, Li, Xiao, Yichen, Kong, Weishan, Zhang, Malu, Cheng, Shaohuan, Zhao, Hongyang, Chen, Wenyu
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author Liu, Wanlong
Zeng, Dingyi
Zhou, Li
Xiao, Yichen
Kong, Weishan
Zhang, Malu
Cheng, Shaohuan
Zhao, Hongyang
Chen, Wenyu
author_facet Liu, Wanlong
Zeng, Dingyi
Zhou, Li
Xiao, Yichen
Kong, Weishan
Zhang, Malu
Cheng, Shaohuan
Zhao, Hongyang
Chen, Wenyu
contents Document-level event argument extraction is a crucial yet challenging task within the field of information extraction. Current mainstream approaches primarily focus on the information interaction between event triggers and their arguments, facing two limitations: insufficient context interaction and the ignorance of event correlations. Here, we introduce a novel framework named CARLG (Contextual Aggregation of clues and Role-based Latent Guidance), comprising two innovative components: the Contextual Clues Aggregation (CCA) and the Role-based Latent Information Guidance (RLIG). The CCA module leverages the attention weights derived from a pre-trained encoder to adaptively assimilates broader contextual information, while the RLIG module aims to capture the semantic correlations among event roles. We then instantiate the CARLG framework into two variants based on two types of current mainstream EAE approaches. Notably, our CARLG framework introduces less than 1% new parameters yet significantly improving the performance. Comprehensive experiments across the RAMS, WikiEvents, and MLEE datasets confirm the superiority of CARLG, showing significant superiority in terms of both performance and inference speed compared to major benchmarks. Further analyses demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed modules.
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spellingShingle Utilizing Contextual Clues and Role Correlations for Enhancing Document-level Event Argument Extraction
Liu, Wanlong
Zeng, Dingyi
Zhou, Li
Xiao, Yichen
Kong, Weishan
Zhang, Malu
Cheng, Shaohuan
Zhao, Hongyang
Chen, Wenyu
Computation and Language
Information Retrieval
Document-level event argument extraction is a crucial yet challenging task within the field of information extraction. Current mainstream approaches primarily focus on the information interaction between event triggers and their arguments, facing two limitations: insufficient context interaction and the ignorance of event correlations. Here, we introduce a novel framework named CARLG (Contextual Aggregation of clues and Role-based Latent Guidance), comprising two innovative components: the Contextual Clues Aggregation (CCA) and the Role-based Latent Information Guidance (RLIG). The CCA module leverages the attention weights derived from a pre-trained encoder to adaptively assimilates broader contextual information, while the RLIG module aims to capture the semantic correlations among event roles. We then instantiate the CARLG framework into two variants based on two types of current mainstream EAE approaches. Notably, our CARLG framework introduces less than 1% new parameters yet significantly improving the performance. Comprehensive experiments across the RAMS, WikiEvents, and MLEE datasets confirm the superiority of CARLG, showing significant superiority in terms of both performance and inference speed compared to major benchmarks. Further analyses demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed modules.
title Utilizing Contextual Clues and Role Correlations for Enhancing Document-level Event Argument Extraction
topic Computation and Language
Information Retrieval
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2310.05116