Fusion meets Function: The Adaptive Selection-Generation Approach in Event Argument Extraction
Guoxuan Ding, Xiaobo Guo, Xin Wang, Lei Wang, Tianshu Fu, Nan Mu, Daren Zha
Abstract
Event Argument Extraction is a critical task of Event Extraction, focused on identifying event arguments within text. This paper presents a novel Fusion Selection-Generation-Based Approach, by combining the precision of selective methods with the semantic generation capability of generative methods to enhance argument extraction accuracy. This synergistic integration, achieved through fusion prompt, element-based extraction, and fusion learning, addresses the challenges of input, process, and output fusion, effectively blending the unique characteristics of both methods into a cohesive model. Comprehensive evaluations on the RAMS and WikiEvents demonstrate the model’s state-of-the-art performance and efficiency.- Anthology ID:
- 2025.coling-main.294
- Volume:
- Proceedings of the 31st International Conference on Computational Linguistics
- Month:
- January
- Year:
- 2025
- Address:
- Abu Dhabi, UAE
- Editors:
- Owen Rambow, Leo Wanner, Marianna Apidianaki, Hend Al-Khalifa, Barbara Di Eugenio, Steven Schockaert
- Venue:
- COLING
- SIG:
- Publisher:
- Association for Computational Linguistics
- Note:
- Pages:
- 4359–4369
- Language:
- URL:
- https://preview.aclanthology.org/jlcl-multiple-ingestion/2025.coling-main.294/
- DOI:
- Cite (ACL):
- Guoxuan Ding, Xiaobo Guo, Xin Wang, Lei Wang, Tianshu Fu, Nan Mu, and Daren Zha. 2025. Fusion meets Function: The Adaptive Selection-Generation Approach in Event Argument Extraction. In Proceedings of the 31st International Conference on Computational Linguistics, pages 4359–4369, Abu Dhabi, UAE. Association for Computational Linguistics.
- Cite (Informal):
- Fusion meets Function: The Adaptive Selection-Generation Approach in Event Argument Extraction (Ding et al., COLING 2025)
- PDF:
- https://preview.aclanthology.org/jlcl-multiple-ingestion/2025.coling-main.294.pdf