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ArticleFrontiers in artificial intelligence2025

Enhancing pre-trained language model by answering natural questions for event extraction.

Yuxin Zhang, Qing Han

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Article in Frontiers in artificial intelligence, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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Yuxin ZhangSchool of Medical Technology and Information Engineering, Zhejiang Chinese Medical University, Hangzhou, China.
Qing HanSchool of Medical Technology and Information Engineering, Zhejiang Chinese Medical University, Hangzhou, China.

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Abstract

Introduction: Event extraction is the task of identifying and extracting structured information about events from unstructured text. However, event extraction remains challenging due to the complexity and diversity of event expressions, as well as the ambiguity and context dependency of language. Methods: In this paper, we propose a new method to improve the precision and recall of event extraction by including topic words related to events and their contexts, directing the model to focus on the relevant information, and filtering the noise. Results: This method was evaluated on the ACE 2005 dataset, achieving an F1-score of 77.27% with significant improvements in both precision and recall. Discussion: Our results show that the use of topic words and question answering techniques can effectively address the challenges faced by event extraction and pave the way for the development of more accurate and robust event extraction systems.

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contextual informationevent extractionpre-trained language modelquestion answeringtopic words

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