The schematization of knowledge, including the extraction of entities and relations from documents, poses significant challenges to traditional approaches because of the document’s ambiguity, heterogeneity, and high cost domain-specific training. Although Large Language Models (LLMs) allow for extraction without prior training on the dataset, the requirement of fine-tuning along with low precision, especially in relation extraction, serves as an obstacle. In absence of domain-specific training, we present a new zero-shot ensemble approach using DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Llama-70B, Llama-3.3-70B, and Qwen-2.5-32B. Our key innovation is a two-stage pipeline that first consolidates high-confidence entities through ensemble techniques, then leverages Qwen-2.5-32B with engineered prompts to generate precise semantic triples. This approach effectively resolves the low precision problem typically encountered in relation extraction. Experiments demonstrate significant gains in both accuracy and efficiency across diverse domains, with our method ranking in the top 2 on the official leaderboard in Shared Task-IV of The 1st Joint Workshop on Large Language Models and Structure Modeling. This competitive performance validates our approach as a compelling solution for practitioners seeking robust document-level information extraction without the burden of task-specific fine-tuning. Our code can be found at https://github.com/dinhthienan33/ZeroSemble.

This paper presents the development process of a Vietnamese spoken language corpus for machine reading comprehension (MRC) tasks and provides insights into the challenges and opportunities associated with using real-world data for machine reading comprehension tasks. The existing MRC corpora in Vietnamese mainly focus on formal written documents such as Wikipedia articles, online newspapers, or textbooks. In contrast, the VlogQA consists of 10,076 question-answer pairs based on 1,230 transcript documents sourced from YouTube – an extensive source of user-uploaded content, covering the topics of food and travel. By capturing the spoken language of native Vietnamese speakers in natural settings, an obscure corner overlooked in Vietnamese research, the corpus provides a valuable resource for future research in reading comprehension tasks for the Vietnamese language. Regarding performance evaluation, our deep-learning models achieved the highest F1 score of 75.34% on the test set, indicating significant progress in machine reading comprehension for Vietnamese spoken language data. In terms of EM, the highest score we accomplished is 53.97%, which reflects the challenge in processing spoken-based content and highlights the need for further improvement.