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Omar Adjali

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A Multi-Domain and Multi-Task Generative Framework with Explicit Task and Domain Conditioning for Cross-Domain Event Extraction

Event extraction aims to identify event triggers, classify event types, and extract arguments to construct structured event representations. Despite strong in-domain performance, developing models that generalize robustly across domains remains challenging due to variations in contextual expressions and event schemas. Prior unified and multi-task approaches improve in-domain accuracy but exhibit limited flexibility when applied to unseen domains. Even large language model-based methods that provide full event ontologies at inference time often underperform compared to smaller, task-specific fine-tuned models. We propose a unified multi-domain and multi-task training framework that models heterogeneous event schemas within a single model. Our approach introduces domain conditioning signals, jointly with task-specific prompts, enabling dynamic adaptation to dataset-specific schemas without requiring complete event label sets at inference time. The framework supports both pipeline and end-to-end extraction settings, facilitating efficient task- and domain-level transfer. Experiments on diverse event extraction benchmarks demonstrate that our method achieves competitive performance, strong cross-domain generalization, and practical scalability, while preserving domain-specific precision.

cs.CL

A Scalable Cross-Domain Event Extraction System via a Unified Generative Training Framework

Event extraction is fundamental to information extraction. Prior approaches often separate event detection and argument extraction or depend on dataset-specific designs, limiting scalability and cross-domain generalization. We propose a unified generative sequence-to-sequence framework that performs event extraction subtasks jointly and supports both pipeline and end-to-end configurations. We fine-tune pretrained language models on multiple event datasets across diverse domains, enabling a single model to retain domain-specific semantics while generalizing over large and evolving label spaces. We demonstrate these capabilities through a web-based application tailored for researchers and practitioners. The platform supports document upload, schema-aware event extraction, visualization of triggers and arguments, and comparison of different extraction configurations across domains.

cs.CL

WOLF-VLA: Whole-Body Humanoid Optimal Locomotion Framework for Vision-Language-Action Learning

Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models have recently demonstrated strong generalization in robotic manipulation, yet their applicability to whole-body, contact-rich humanoid locomotion remains severely underexplored due to data scarcity, the absence of dynamically consistent demonstrations, and the difficulty of encoding optimality and safety in learning-based pipelines. This work introduces a unified framework WOLF-VLA that integrates whole-body optimal-control (OC) motion synthesis with large-scale multi-modal dataset to train VLAs capable of generating humanoid locomotion policies directly from natural-language instructions. We construct a comprehensive dataset of dynamically feasible humanoid trajectories across six locomotion-related task families, each parameterized by environmental variations, object colors, placements, and visual distractors. We train a VLA model using the collected joint trajectories, ego-centric visual observations and natural language instruction, yielding a policy that exhibits strong reasoning and robustness to initial-condition variability, and competitive performance across several tasks and environment settings. A systematic ablation study demonstrates the impact of each modality on the model performance. The full dataset, model checkpoints, and benchmarking simulation suite will be openly released, establishing a reproducible dynamically consistent benchmark for whole-body humanoid locomotion rich VLA control and enabling future research in scalable transfer of instruction-driven locomotion policies.

cs.RO

Multimodal Entity Linking for Tweets

In many information extraction applications, entity linking (EL) has emerged as a crucial task that allows leveraging information about named entities from a knowledge base. In this paper, we address the task of multimodal entity linking (MEL), an emerging research field in which textual and visual information is used to map an ambiguous mention to an entity in a knowledge base (KB). First, we propose a method for building a fully annotated Twitter dataset for MEL, where entities are defined in a Twitter KB. Then, we propose a model for jointly learning a representation of both mentions and entities from their textual and visual contexts. We demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed model by evaluating it on the proposed dataset and highlight the importance of leveraging visual information when it is available.

cs.IR