A Multilingual Dataset and Empirical Validation for the Mutual Reinforcement Effect in Information Extraction (2026.findings-acl)
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Chengguang Gan, Sunbowen Lee, Qingyu Yin, Yunhao Liang, Xinyang He, Hanjun Wei, Younghun Lim, Shijian Wang, Hexiang Huang, QingHao Zhang, Shiwen Ni, Tatsunori Mori
| Challenge: | Existing work on the Mutual Reinforcement Effect in information extraction has not been empirically validated . 76 percent of the 21 sub-datasets exhibit the Mutual Reforcement effect across languages . |
| Approach: | They propose a multilingual MRE mix dataset that integrates 21 sub-datasets covering English, Japanese, and Chinese. |
| Outcome: | The proposed framework reduces manual annotation effort while preserving structural requirements of MRE tasks. |
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