UniEX: An Effective and Efficient Framework for Unified Information Extraction via a Span-extractive Perspective (2023.acl-long)
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| Challenge: | Existing approaches for information extraction (IE) are limited by the number of subtasks and the isolation of the subtask. |
| Approach: | They propose a new paradigm for universal information extraction that is compatible with any schema format and applicable to a list of IE tasks. |
| Outcome: | The proposed framework outperforms generative universal IE models on 14 benchmarks with the supervised setting and the state-of-the-art performance in low-resource scenarios. |
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