SNaRe: Domain-aware Data Generation for Low-Resource Event Detection

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2502.17394v2
• Date: Thu, 05 Jun 2025 15:45:00 GMT
• Title: SNaRe: Domain-aware Data Generation for Low-Resource Event Detection
• Authors: Tanmay Parekh, Yuxuan Dong, Lucas Bandarkar, Artin Kim, I-Hung Hsu, Kai-Wei Chang, Nanyun Peng,
• Abstract summary: Event Detection is critical for enabling reasoning in highly specialized domains such as biomedicine, law, and epidemiology.<n>We introduce SNaRe, a domain-aware synthetic data generation framework composed of three components: Scout, Narrator, and Refiner.<n>Scout extracts triggers from unlabeled target domain data and curates a high-quality domain-specific trigger list.<n>Narrator, conditioned on these triggers, generates high-quality domain-aligned sentences, and Refiner identifies additional event mentions.
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• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: Event Detection (ED) -- the task of identifying event mentions from natural language text -- is critical for enabling reasoning in highly specialized domains such as biomedicine, law, and epidemiology. Data generation has proven to be effective in broadening its utility to wider applications without requiring expensive expert annotations. However, when existing generation approaches are applied to specialized domains, they struggle with label noise, where annotations are incorrect, and domain drift, characterized by a distributional mismatch between generated sentences and the target domain. To address these issues, we introduce SNaRe, a domain-aware synthetic data generation framework composed of three components: Scout, Narrator, and Refiner. Scout extracts triggers from unlabeled target domain data and curates a high-quality domain-specific trigger list using corpus-level statistics to mitigate domain drift. Narrator, conditioned on these triggers, generates high-quality domain-aligned sentences, and Refiner identifies additional event mentions, ensuring high annotation quality. Experimentation on three diverse domain ED datasets reveals how SNaRe outperforms the best baseline, achieving average F1 gains of 3-7% in the zero-shot/few-shot settings and 4-20% F1 improvement for multilingual generation. Analyzing the generated trigger hit rate and human evaluation substantiates SNaRe's stronger annotation quality and reduced domain drift.

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