Natural Language Processing And Event Extraction For Big Data

This article discusses the importance of Event Extraction (EE) in managing and gathering knowledge from the overwhelming amount of textual data shared on the Web. It highlights the progress and different approaches in EE, specifically Sentence-level and Document-level extraction, and the role of Natural Language Processing (NLP) techniques in this field. The article also calls for further improvement and presents a Special Issue focusing on recent advances in NLP for EE.