Papers with extraction tasks
OpenUE: An Open Toolkit of Universal Extraction from Text (2020.emnlp-demos)
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Ningyu Zhang, Shumin Deng, Zhen Bi, Haiyang Yu, Jiacheng Yang, Mosha Chen, Fei Huang, Wei Zhang, Huajun Chen
| Challenge: | a large number of natural language processing tasks focus on token-level or sentence-level understandings. |
| Approach: | They propose an open-source and extensible toolkit for various extraction tasks . they deploy an online demo with restful APIs to support real-time extraction . |
| Outcome: | The proposed model can be used to extract information from text without training and deployment. |
PARSE: LLM Driven Schema Optimization for Reliable Entity Extraction (2025.emnlp-industry)
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| Challenge: | Structured information extraction from unstructured text is critical for Software 3.0 systems . current approaches to extract structured information from unstructed text are static contracts . |
| Approach: | They propose a system that automates JSON schemas for LLM consumption and optimizes them for LRM consumption. |
| Outcome: | The proposed system improves extraction accuracy and reduces errors by 92% within the first retry and maintaining practical latency. |
Universal Information Extraction with Meta-Pretrained Self-Retrieval (2023.findings-acl)
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Xin Cong, Bowen Yu, Mengcheng Fang, Tingwen Liu, Haiyang Yu, Zhongkai Hu, Fei Huang, Yongbin Li, Bin Wang
| Challenge: | Existing methods for IE are task-specific, resulting in specialized and isolated approaches for different tasks. |
| Approach: | They propose a method to retrieve task-specific knowledge from pretrained language models to enhance universal IE by using a Meta-Pretraining Algorithm. |
| Outcome: | The proposed method achieves the new state-of-the-art on 4 IE tasks, 12 datasets under fully-supervised, low-resource and few-shot scenarios. |
Standardizing Distress Analysis: Emotion-Driven Distress Identification and Cause Extraction (DICE) in Multimodal Online Posts (2023.emnlp-main)
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| Challenge: | Existing methods for identifying hate speech have been limited to analyzing textual content. |
| Approach: | They propose a method for distress identification and cause extraction from social media posts using emotional information. |
| Outcome: | The proposed method improves F1 and ROS scores by 1.95% and 3% relative to the best-performing baseline. |
Large Language Models Can be Lazy Learners: Analyze Shortcuts in In-Context Learning (2023.findings-acl)
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| Challenge: | Large language models (LLMs) have shown great potential for in-context learning, but their robustness and performance on downstream tasks remains limited. |
| Approach: | They propose to examine the reliance of LLMs on shortcuts or spurious correlations within prompts for downstream tasks and find larger models are more likely to utilize shortcuts in prompts during inference. |
| Outcome: | The proposed model is “lazy learner” and more likely to use shortcuts in prompts during inference. |
Relabel the Noise: Joint Extraction of Entities and Relations via Cooperative Multiagents (2020.acl-main)
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| Challenge: | Existing methods for entity and relation extraction require light human annotation efforts. |
| Approach: | They propose a method to re-label noisy instances with a cooperative group . they use a confidence consensus module to gather the wisdom of all agents . |
| Outcome: | The proposed model outperforms state-of-the-art methods on two real-world datasets. |
LAVa: Layer-wise KV Cache Eviction with Dynamic Budget Allocation (2025.findings-emnlp)
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| Challenge: | Existing methods for cache compression are heuristic and lack dynamic budget allocation . cnn's john mccartney and johnny mccain present a new approach for cache eviction and dynamic budgets . |
| Approach: | They propose a unified framework for cache compression that minimizes information loss in transformer residual streams. |
| Outcome: | The proposed method consistently maintains top performance across task types. |