@inproceedings{song-2025-system,
title = "System Report for {CCL}25-Eval Task 12: Surpassing {LLM}s with a Simple Pipeline for {M}andarin Spoken Entity-Relation Extraction",
author = "Song, Wuganjing",
editor = "Lin, Hongfei and
Li, Bin and
Tan, Hongye",
booktitle = "Proceedings of the 24th {C}hina National Conference on Computational Linguistics ({CCL} 2025)",
month = aug,
year = "2025",
address = "Jinan, China",
publisher = "Chinese Information Processing Society of China",
url = "https://aclanthology.org/2025.ccl-2.56/",
pages = "466--469",
abstract = "``We present a strong and practical pipeline system for Mandarin spoken entity and relation extraction (Spoken-ERE), which integrates an industrial-grade ASR module (FireRedASR) with a span-based joint entity-relation extraction model. Unlike recent approaches that rely on large language models (LLMs) for end-to-end spoken information extraction, our method uses a modular pipeline design that is lightweight, interpretable, and easy to deploy. Despite its simplicity,our system achieves top-tier performance in a recent shared task workshop, outperform-ing several 5{\texttimes} larger LLM-based systems for 20{\%} on F1-score. We demonstrate through experiments that with robust ASR and a well-designed span-based model, classical pipelines re-main competitive and, in some scenarios, even preferable to LLM-based solutions for spoken information extraction in Mandarin.''"
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%0 Conference Proceedings
%T System Report for CCL25-Eval Task 12: Surpassing LLMs with a Simple Pipeline for Mandarin Spoken Entity-Relation Extraction
%A Song, Wuganjing
%Y Lin, Hongfei
%Y Li, Bin
%Y Tan, Hongye
%S Proceedings of the 24th China National Conference on Computational Linguistics (CCL 2025)
%D 2025
%8 August
%I Chinese Information Processing Society of China
%C Jinan, China
%F song-2025-system
%X “We present a strong and practical pipeline system for Mandarin spoken entity and relation extraction (Spoken-ERE), which integrates an industrial-grade ASR module (FireRedASR) with a span-based joint entity-relation extraction model. Unlike recent approaches that rely on large language models (LLMs) for end-to-end spoken information extraction, our method uses a modular pipeline design that is lightweight, interpretable, and easy to deploy. Despite its simplicity,our system achieves top-tier performance in a recent shared task workshop, outperform-ing several 5× larger LLM-based systems for 20% on F1-score. We demonstrate through experiments that with robust ASR and a well-designed span-based model, classical pipelines re-main competitive and, in some scenarios, even preferable to LLM-based solutions for spoken information extraction in Mandarin.”
%U https://aclanthology.org/2025.ccl-2.56/
%P 466-469
Markdown (Informal)
[System Report for CCL25-Eval Task 12: Surpassing LLMs with a Simple Pipeline for Mandarin Spoken Entity-Relation Extraction](https://aclanthology.org/2025.ccl-2.56/) (Song, CCL 2025)
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