Three Stream Based Multi-level Event Contrastive Learning for Text-Video Event Extraction (2023.emnlp-main)
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| Challenge: | Existing methods for event extraction ignore motion representations in videos and are misguided by background noise. |
| Approach: | They propose a text-video based multimodal event extraction framework that integrates video appearance features and motion representations with video appearance. |
| Outcome: | The proposed framework outperforms the state-of-the-art methods in the event extraction field. |
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