Analyzing Temporal Complex Events with Large Language Models? A Benchmark towards Temporal, Long Context Understanding
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| author | Zhang, Zhihan Cao, Yixin Ye, Chenchen Ma, Yunshan Liao, Lizi Chua, Tat-Seng |
| author_facet | Zhang, Zhihan Cao, Yixin Ye, Chenchen Ma, Yunshan Liao, Lizi Chua, Tat-Seng |
| contents | The digital landscape is rapidly evolving with an ever-increasing volume of online news, emphasizing the need for swift and precise analysis of complex events. We refer to the complex events composed of many news articles over an extended period as Temporal Complex Event (TCE). This paper proposes a novel approach using Large Language Models (LLMs) to systematically extract and analyze the event chain within TCE, characterized by their key points and timestamps. We establish a benchmark, named TCELongBench, to evaluate the proficiency of LLMs in handling temporal dynamics and understanding extensive text. This benchmark encompasses three distinct tasks - reading comprehension, temporal sequencing, and future event forecasting. In the experiment, we leverage retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) method and LLMs with long context window to deal with lengthy news articles of TCE. Our findings indicate that models with suitable retrievers exhibit comparable performance with those utilizing long context window. |
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| spellingShingle | Analyzing Temporal Complex Events with Large Language Models? A Benchmark towards Temporal, Long Context Understanding Zhang, Zhihan Cao, Yixin Ye, Chenchen Ma, Yunshan Liao, Lizi Chua, Tat-Seng Computation and Language The digital landscape is rapidly evolving with an ever-increasing volume of online news, emphasizing the need for swift and precise analysis of complex events. We refer to the complex events composed of many news articles over an extended period as Temporal Complex Event (TCE). This paper proposes a novel approach using Large Language Models (LLMs) to systematically extract and analyze the event chain within TCE, characterized by their key points and timestamps. We establish a benchmark, named TCELongBench, to evaluate the proficiency of LLMs in handling temporal dynamics and understanding extensive text. This benchmark encompasses three distinct tasks - reading comprehension, temporal sequencing, and future event forecasting. In the experiment, we leverage retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) method and LLMs with long context window to deal with lengthy news articles of TCE. Our findings indicate that models with suitable retrievers exhibit comparable performance with those utilizing long context window. |
| title | Analyzing Temporal Complex Events with Large Language Models? A Benchmark towards Temporal, Long Context Understanding |
| topic | Computation and Language |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.02472 |