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Large Language Models for Generative Information Extraction (arxiv.org)
2 points by saeedesmaili on Jan 17, 2024 | hide | past | pdf | discuss on HN

In plain words: This survey collects recent work that uses large language models to write out structured facts, like entities and relations, straight from text, instead of the usual approach of training a separate classifier for each fact type. It sorts these efforts by task and technique, then tests leading ones to spot trends and open questions.

Abstract · Large Language Models for Generative Information Extraction: A Survey

Information extraction (IE) aims to extract structural knowledge from plain natural language texts. Recently, generative Large Language Models (LLMs) have demonstrated remarkable capabilities in text understanding and generation. As a result, numerous works have been proposed to integrate LLMs for IE tasks based on a generative paradigm. To conduct a comprehensive systematic review and exploration of LLM efforts for IE tasks, in this study, we survey the most recent advancements in this field. We first present an extensive overview by categorizing these works in terms of various IE subtasks and techniques, and then we empirically analyze the most advanced methods and discover the emerging trend of IE tasks with LLMs. Based on a thorough review conducted, we identify several insights in technique and promising research directions that deserve further exploration in future studies. We maintain a public repository and consistently update related works and resources on GitHub (\href{https://github.com/quqxui/Awesome-LLM4IE-Papers}{LLM4IE repository})

Derong Xu, Wei Chen, Wenjun Peng, Chao Zhang, Tong Xu, Xiangyu Zhao, Xian Wu, Yefeng Zheng, Yang Wang, Enhong Chen
arXiv:2312.17617 · cs.CL · submitted Dec 29, 2023 · updated Oct 31, 2024
abstract · pdf · html · The article has been accepted by Frontiers of Computer Science (FCS), with the DOI: {10.1007/s11704-024-40555-y}. You can cite the FCS version

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