JaCorpTrack: Corporate History Event Extraction for Tracking Organizational Changes

Yuya Sawada, Hiroki Ouchi, Yuichiro Yasui, Hiroki Teranishi, Yuji Matsumoto, Taro Watanabe, Masayuki Ishii


Abstract
Corporate history in corporate annual reports includes events related to organizational changes, which can provide useful cues for a comprehensive understanding of corporate actions.However, extracting organizational changes requires identifying differences in companies before and after an event, raising concerns about whether existing information extraction systems can accurately capture the relations.This work introduces JaCorpTrack, a novel event extraction task designed to identify events related to organizational changes.JaCorpTrack defines five event types related to organizational changes and is designed to identify the company names before and after each event, as well as the corresponding date.Experimental results indicate that large language models (LLMs) exhibit notable disparities in performance across event types.Our analysis reveals that these systems face challenges in identifying company names before and after events, and in interpreting event types expressed under ambiguous terminology.We will publicly release our dataset and experimental code at https://github.com/naist-nlp/JaCorpTrack
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2025.emnlp-industry.177
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Proceedings of the 2025 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing: Industry Track
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November
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2025
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Suzhou (China)
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Saloni Potdar, Lina Rojas-Barahona, Sebastien Montella
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EMNLP
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Association for Computational Linguistics
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2607–2623
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https://aclanthology.org/2025.emnlp-industry.177/
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Yuya Sawada, Hiroki Ouchi, Yuichiro Yasui, Hiroki Teranishi, Yuji Matsumoto, Taro Watanabe, and Masayuki Ishii. 2025. JaCorpTrack: Corporate History Event Extraction for Tracking Organizational Changes. In Proceedings of the 2025 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing: Industry Track, pages 2607–2623, Suzhou (China). Association for Computational Linguistics.
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JaCorpTrack: Corporate History Event Extraction for Tracking Organizational Changes (Sawada et al., EMNLP 2025)
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