Papers by Yanglei Gan
GEMS: Generation-Based Event Argument Extraction via Multi-perspective Prompts and Ontology Steering (2025.findings-acl)
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| Challenge: | Existing methods for event argument extraction rely on a single prompt . existing methods ignore complex structural and dynamic interdependencies between event arguments . |
| Approach: | They propose a multi-prompt learning framework that generates event arguments via multi-perspective prompts and ontology steering. |
| Outcome: | The proposed framework captures interrelationships between arguments and ontology steering . it uses multiple unfilled prompts for each sentence to generate event arguments . |
Negative-Aware Diffusion Process for Temporal Knowledge Graph Extrapolation (2026.findings-eacl)
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| Challenge: | Temporal Knowledge Graphs (TKGs) are dynamic structures representing entities and their evolving relationships through time. |
| Approach: | They propose a non-parametric model that encodes subject-centric histories into sequential embeddings. |
| Outcome: | The proposed model encodes subject-centric histories of entities, relations and temporal intervals into sequential embeddings. |
DiFiNet: Boundary-Aware Semantic Differentiation and Filtration Network for Nested Named Entity Recognition (2024.acl-long)
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| Challenge: | Existing approaches to Named Entity Recognition focus on identifying non-nested entities, but there is no explicit guidance for boundary detection. |
| Approach: | They propose a Boundary-aware Semantic Differentiation and Filtration Network for nested NER that leverages a biaffine attention mechanism to generate a span representation matrix. |
| Outcome: | Extensive experiments on three benchmark datasets demonstrate the proposed model yields a new state-of-the-art performance. |
Predicting the Unpredictable: Uncertainty-Aware Reasoning over Temporal Knowledge Graphs via Diffusion Process (2024.findings-acl)
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| Challenge: | Existing methods for Temporal Knowledge Graph reasoning capture indeterminacy in future events, but they are limited in capturing it. |
| Approach: | They propose a Temporal Knowledge Graph reasoning process that denoises historical events and introduces Gaussian noise to corrupt target facts. |
| Outcome: | Empirical results show that DiffuTKG outperforms state-of-the-art methods on four real-world datasets. |
Synergetic Interaction Network with Cross-task Attention for Joint Relational Triple Extraction (2024.lrec-main)
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| Challenge: | Existing approaches to joint entity-relation extraction are limited in their ability to capture the interdependence between the two sub-tasks. |
| Approach: | They propose a synergistic approach to capture interdependence between named entity recognition and relation extraction sub-tasks in a Synergetic Interaction Network. |
| Outcome: | The proposed model achieves significantly better performance on three benchmark datasets. |