@inproceedings{ma-etal-2026-hcre, title = "{HCRE}: {LLM}-based Hierarchical Classification for Cross-Document Relation Extraction with a Prediction-then-Verification Strategy", author = "Ma, Guoqi and Zhang, Liang and Tu, Hongyao and Fu, Hao and Li, Hui and Lin, Yujie and Wang, Longyue and Luo, Weihua and Su, Jinsong", editor = "Liakata, Maria and Moreira, Viviane P. and Zhang, Jiajun and Jurgens, David", booktitle = "Findings of the {A}ssociation for {C}omputational {L}inguistics: {ACL} 2026", month = jul, year = "2026", address = "San Diego, California, United States", publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics", url = "https://preview.aclanthology.org/ingest-acl/2026.findings-acl.1985/", pages = "39895--39913", ISBN = "979-8-89176-395-1" }