Harvesting Events from Multiple Sources: Towards a Cross-Document Event Extraction Paradigm

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Main Authors: Gao, Qiang, Meng, Zixiang, Li, Bobo, Zhou, Jun, Li, Fei, Teng, Chong, Ji, Donghong
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author Gao, Qiang
Meng, Zixiang
Li, Bobo
Zhou, Jun
Li, Fei
Teng, Chong
Ji, Donghong
author_facet Gao, Qiang
Meng, Zixiang
Li, Bobo
Zhou, Jun
Li, Fei
Teng, Chong
Ji, Donghong
contents Document-level event extraction aims to extract structured event information from unstructured text. However, a single document often contains limited event information and the roles of different event arguments may be biased due to the influence of the information source. This paper addresses the limitations of traditional document-level event extraction by proposing the task of cross-document event extraction (CDEE) to integrate event information from multiple documents and provide a comprehensive perspective on events. We construct a novel cross-document event extraction dataset, namely CLES, which contains 20,059 documents and 37,688 mention-level events, where over 70% of them are cross-document. To build a benchmark, we propose a CDEE pipeline that includes 5 steps, namely event extraction, coreference resolution, entity normalization, role normalization and entity-role resolution. Our CDEE pipeline achieves about 72% F1 in end-to-end cross-document event extraction, suggesting the challenge of this task. Our work builds a new line of information extraction research and will attract new research attention.
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spellingShingle Harvesting Events from Multiple Sources: Towards a Cross-Document Event Extraction Paradigm
Gao, Qiang
Meng, Zixiang
Li, Bobo
Zhou, Jun
Li, Fei
Teng, Chong
Ji, Donghong
Computation and Language
Artificial Intelligence
Document-level event extraction aims to extract structured event information from unstructured text. However, a single document often contains limited event information and the roles of different event arguments may be biased due to the influence of the information source. This paper addresses the limitations of traditional document-level event extraction by proposing the task of cross-document event extraction (CDEE) to integrate event information from multiple documents and provide a comprehensive perspective on events. We construct a novel cross-document event extraction dataset, namely CLES, which contains 20,059 documents and 37,688 mention-level events, where over 70% of them are cross-document. To build a benchmark, we propose a CDEE pipeline that includes 5 steps, namely event extraction, coreference resolution, entity normalization, role normalization and entity-role resolution. Our CDEE pipeline achieves about 72% F1 in end-to-end cross-document event extraction, suggesting the challenge of this task. Our work builds a new line of information extraction research and will attract new research attention.
title Harvesting Events from Multiple Sources: Towards a Cross-Document Event Extraction Paradigm
topic Computation and Language
Artificial Intelligence
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.16021