Papers by Shun Zheng
Doc2EDAG: An End-to-End Document-level Framework for Chinese Financial Event Extraction (D19-1)
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| Challenge: | Existing event extraction methods are limited to extract event arguments within the sentence scope. |
| Approach: | They propose a model which generates an entity-based directed acyclic graph to fulfill document-level EE effectively. |
| Outcome: | The proposed model can generate entity-based directed acyclic graph to fulfill document-level EE effectively. |
Listen, Watch, and Learn to Feel: Retrieval-Augmented Emotion Reasoning for Compound Emotion Generation (2025.findings-acl)
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| Challenge: | Existing methods to assess human emotion are limited by the subjective nature of emotion perception, limiting the robustness of existing models. |
| Approach: | They propose a plug-and-play module that enhances MLLMs’ ability to tackle compound and context-rich emotion tasks. |
| Outcome: | The proposed framework improves MLLMs' ability to tackle compound and context-rich emotion tasks and the Compound Emotion QA dataset shows it performs well across both benchmarks and evaluation frameworks. |
SEEK: Segmented Embedding of Knowledge Graphs (2020.acl-main)
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| Challenge: | Existing methods for knowledge graph embedding can not make a proper trade-off between the model complexity and the model expressiveness, which makes them far from satisfactory. |
| Approach: | They propose a lightweight modeling framework that can achieve highly competitive relational expressiveness without increasing the model complexity. |
| Outcome: | The proposed framework can achieve highly competitive relational expressiveness without increasing model complexity. |
Revisiting the Evaluation of End-to-end Event Extraction (2021.findings-acl)
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| Challenge: | Existing EE research uses the role-averaged evaluation metric, but it is misleading to downstream applications. |
| Approach: | They propose two new evaluation metrics that explicitly penalize wrongly identified event arguments. |
| Outcome: | The proposed evaluation metrics improve the initial evaluation by 10% . the proposed training scheme is better than the existing one, the authors show . |
DIAG-NRE: A Neural Pattern Diagnosis Framework for Distantly Supervised Neural Relation Extraction (P19-1)
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| Challenge: | Existing methods for labeling relational facts require significant expert labor to write relation-specific patterns, which makes them too sophisticated to generalize quickly. |
| Approach: | They propose a neural pattern diagnosis framework that can summarize and refine relation-specific patterns with human experts in the loop. |
| Outcome: | The proposed framework can summarize and refine high-quality relational patterns from noise data with human experts in the loop. |
Iterative Multilingual Spectral Attribute Erasure (2025.emnlp-main)
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| Challenge: | Existing methods for debiasing are unable to exploit this opportunity because they operate on individual languages. |
| Approach: | They propose to iterate multilingual spectral attribute error (IMSAE) to mitigate joint bias subspaces across multiple languages through iterative SVD-based truncation. |
| Outcome: | The proposed method outperforms monolingual and cross-lingual approaches while maintaining model utility. |