Zairun Yang


2025

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EventRAG: Enhancing LLM Generation with Event Knowledge Graphs
Zairun Yang | Yilin Wang | Zhengyan Shi | Yuan Yao | Lei Liang | Keyan Ding | Emine Yilmaz | Huajun Chen | Qiang Zhang
Proceedings of the 63rd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers)

Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) systems often struggle with narrative-rich documents and event-centric reasoning, particularly when synthesizing information across multiple sources. We present EventRAG, a novel framework that enhances text generation through structured event representations. We first construct an Event Knowledge Graph by extracting events and merging semantically equivalent nodes across documents, while expanding under-connected relationships. We then employ an iterative retrieval and inference strategy that explicitly captures temporal dependencies and logical relationships across events. Experiments on UltraDomain and MultiHopRAG benchmarks show EventRAG’s superiority over baseline RAG systems, with substantial gains in generation effectiveness, logical consistency, and multi-hop reasoning accuracy. Our work advances RAG systems by integrating structured event semantics with iterative inference, particularly benefiting scenarios requiring temporal and logical reasoning across documents.