Generative Approaches to Event Extraction: Survey and Outlook
Étienne Simon, Helene Olsen, Huiling You, Samia Touileb, Lilja Øvrelid, Erik Velldal · 2024
This paper aims to map out the current landscape of generative approaches to the task of event extraction.In surveying the emerging literature on the topic, we identify the distinctive properties of existing studies and catalogue them to build a comprehensive view of the various techniques employed.Finally, looking ahead, we argue for a new generative formulation of event extraction, allowing for a better fit between methodology and task -a proposal that could also pertain to many other traditional NLP tasks currently based on annotations of text-spans.