Challenge: Document-level event extraction requires a view of a larger context to determine which spans of text correspond to event role fillers.
Approach: They propose a multi-granularity reader to dynamically aggregate information captured by neural representations learned at different levels of granularities.
Outcome: The proposed model performs substantially better than previous models on the MUC-4 event extraction dataset.

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Challenge: Document-level event extraction (DEE) is indispensable when events are described throughout a document.
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Challenge: Existing approaches for event extraction focus on sentence-level event extraction, but they lack a broader view of the document context.
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Challenge: Existing approaches to multi-document event extraction have limited attention . despite its practical significance, this task has inherent challenges .
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Multi-Sentence Argument Linking (2020.acl-main)

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Challenge: Existing datasets for cross-sentence linking are small, resulting in a lack of a model for argument linking.
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Dynamic Global Memory for Document-level Argument Extraction (2022.acl-long)

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Challenge: Recent work on document-level event argument extraction is restricted by sequence length constraints and ignores global context between events.
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GRIT: Generative Role-filler Transformers for Document-level Event Entity Extraction (2021.eacl-main)

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Harvesting Events from Multiple Sources: Towards a Cross-Document Event Extraction Paradigm (2024.findings-acl)

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Challenge: Document-level event extraction aims to extract structured information from unstructured text.
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Exploring Sentence Community for Document-Level Event Extraction (2021.findings-emnlp)

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Challenge: Existing approaches to document-level event extraction neglect the complex logic structures in long texts.
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Enhancing Document-level Event Argument Extraction with Contextual Clues and Role Relevance (2023.findings-acl)

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Challenge: Document-level event argument extraction is a challenging task for cross-sentence inference . previous work focused on document-level EAE, but recent work focused more on documentlevel .
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