Hanqiu Liu


2025

Information extraction (IE) in specialized domains like computer science and chemistry is challenged by the poor generalization of traditional models and the knowledge deficits of general-purpose Large Language Models (LLMs). We introduce a robust, LLM-based framework featuring two core contributions: an end-to-end training and inference paradigm that combines continual pre-training (CPT) for knowledge injection, supervised fine-tuning (SFT) for task alignment, and retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) for inference-time enhancement; and a novel LLM-assisted data annotation pipeline for the efficient creation of high-quality training data. Comprehensive experiments demonstrate that while fine-tuning alone yields strong in-domain performance, our complete framework exhibits superior robustness and generalization. It consistently achieves state-of-the-art results in challenging domain-shift and novel-schema scenarios, validating our integrated approach for building adaptable and high-performance domain-specific IE systems.