Adaptive Schema-aware Event Extraction with Retrieval-Augmented Generation (2025.findings-emnlp)
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| Challenge: | Event extraction is a task in natural language processing that involves identifying and extracting event information from unstructured text. |
| Approach: | They propose a paradigm that combines schema paraphrasing with schema retrieval-augmented generation. |
| Outcome: | The proposed paradigm retrieves paraphrased schemas and accurately generates targeted structures. |
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