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Massively Multi-Lingual Event Understanding: Extraction, Visualization, and Search

arXiv 2305.10561 ↗First posted 17 May 2023cs.CLcited by 5

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Abstract (arXiv)

In this paper, we present ISI-Clear, a state-of-the-art, cross-lingual, zero-shot event extraction system and accompanying user interface for event visualization & search. Using only English training data, ISI-Clear makes global events available on-demand, processing user-supplied text in 100 languages ranging from Afrikaans to Yiddish. We provide multiple event-centric views of extracted events, including both a graphical representation and a document-level summary. We also integrate existing cross-lingual search algorithms with event extraction capabilities to provide cross-lingual event-centric search, allowing English-speaking users to search over events automatically extracted from a corpus of non-English documents, using either English natural language queries (e.g. cholera outbreaks in Iran) or structured queries (e.g. find all events of type Disease-Outbreak with agent cholera and location Iran).

Key facts. Cited by 5 papers in the map (data through 7 Oct 2026). Builds on 12 of its 22 references that are in the map. First posted on arXiv 17 May 2023.

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  2. 2023Contextual Label Projection for Cross-Lingual Structured Predictioncited by 9
  3. 2025Event Extraction in Large Language Modelcited by 5
  4. 2023RESIN-EDITOR: A Schema-guided Hierarchical Event Graph Visualizer and Editorcited by 1
  5. 2024Granting GPT-4 License and Opportunity: Enhancing Accuracy and Confidence Estimation for Few-Shot Event Detectioncited by 0