Proceedings of the 9th Workshop on Event Extraction and Understanding: Challenges and Applications (EEUCA 2026)

Proceedings of the 9th Workshop on Event Extraction and Understanding: Challenges and Applications (EEUCA 2026) Ali Hürriyetoğlu editor Surendrabikram Thapa editor Hristo Tanev editor 2026-07 Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, USA text conference publication 979-8-89176-402-6 eeuca-2026-1 https://aclanthology.org/2026.eeuca-1.0/ Overview of the Workshop on Event Extraction and Understanding: Challenges and Applications Ali Hürriyetoğlu author Surendrabikram Thapa author Hristo Tanev author Laxmi Thapa author Surabhi Adhikari author 2026-07 text Proceedings of the 9th Workshop on Event Extraction and Understanding: Challenges and Applications (EEUCA 2026) Ali Hürriyetoğlu editor Surendrabikram Thapa editor Hristo Tanev editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, USA conference publication 979-8-89176-402-6 hurriyetoglu-etal-2026-overview https://aclanthology.org/2026.eeuca-1.1/ 2026-07 1 7 Understanding Toxic Behavior in Gaming Communities Using AI to Promote Healthier Digital Spaces Surendrabikram Thapa author Shuvam Shiwakoti author Siddhant Bikram Shah author Kritesh Rauniyar author Laxmi Thapa author Surabhi Adhikari author Kristina T Johnson author Ali Hürriyetoğlu author Hristo Tanev author Usman Naseem author 2026-07 text Proceedings of the 9th Workshop on Event Extraction and Understanding: Challenges and Applications (EEUCA 2026) Ali Hürriyetoğlu editor Surendrabikram Thapa editor Hristo Tanev editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, USA conference publication 979-8-89176-402-6 thapa-etal-2026-understanding https://aclanthology.org/2026.eeuca-1.2/ 2026-07 8 16 Multimodal Identification of Vaccine Content Stance on Social Media Surendrabikram Thapa author Shuvam Shiwakoti author Siddhant Bikram Shah author Kritesh Rauniyar author Laxmi Thapa author Surabhi Adhikari author Kristina T Johnson author Ali Hürriyetoğlu author Hristo Tanev author Usman Naseem author 2026-07 text Proceedings of the 9th Workshop on Event Extraction and Understanding: Challenges and Applications (EEUCA 2026) Ali Hürriyetoğlu editor Surendrabikram Thapa editor Hristo Tanev editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, USA conference publication 979-8-89176-402-6 thapa-etal-2026-multimodal https://aclanthology.org/2026.eeuca-1.3/ 2026-07 17 25 Constructing a Silver Corpus for Weakly Supervised Vietnamese Event Extraction using Cross-Document N-ary Relation Filtering Phạm Xuân Hiệu author Tuan Vu Minh author Mai-Vu Tran author Hoang-Quynh Le author 2026-07 text Proceedings of the 9th Workshop on Event Extraction and Understanding: Challenges and Applications (EEUCA 2026) Ali Hürriyetoğlu editor Surendrabikram Thapa editor Hristo Tanev editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, USA conference publication 979-8-89176-402-6 hieu-etal-2026-constructing https://aclanthology.org/2026.eeuca-1.4/ 2026-07 26 37 When Tasks Share Structure: A Comparative Study of Training Strategies for Generative Event Extraction Rishi Ravikumar author Riza Batista-Navarro author 2026-07 text Proceedings of the 9th Workshop on Event Extraction and Understanding: Challenges and Applications (EEUCA 2026) Ali Hürriyetoğlu editor Surendrabikram Thapa editor Hristo Tanev editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, USA conference publication 979-8-89176-402-6 ravikumar-batista-navarro-2026-tasks https://aclanthology.org/2026.eeuca-1.5/ 2026-07 38 48 A Qualia-Based Audit of Procedural Event Annotations Kyeongmin Rim author Marc Verhagen author James Pustejovsky author 2026-07 text Proceedings of the 9th Workshop on Event Extraction and Understanding: Challenges and Applications (EEUCA 2026) Ali Hürriyetoğlu editor Surendrabikram Thapa editor Hristo Tanev editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, USA conference publication 979-8-89176-402-6 rim-etal-2026-qualia https://aclanthology.org/2026.eeuca-1.6/ 2026-07 49 57 Benchmarking Models for Low-Resource Nepali Event Extraction with Trigger Phrase Identification and Event Classification Sujal Maharjan author Astha Shrestha author Lakshmojee Koduru author Sweta Poudel author Shuvam Shiwakoti author Rabin Thapa author Kritesh Rauniyar author Surendrabikram Thapa author 2026-07 text Proceedings of the 9th Workshop on Event Extraction and Understanding: Challenges and Applications (EEUCA 2026) Ali Hürriyetoğlu editor Surendrabikram Thapa editor Hristo Tanev editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, USA conference publication 979-8-89176-402-6 maharjan-etal-2026-benchmarking https://aclanthology.org/2026.eeuca-1.7/ 2026-07 58 71 A Self-Reflective LLM-based Architecture for Semi-Open Event Extraction Hristo Tanev author Michel de Bollivier author Bertrand De Longueville author 2026-07 text Proceedings of the 9th Workshop on Event Extraction and Understanding: Challenges and Applications (EEUCA 2026) Ali Hürriyetoğlu editor Surendrabikram Thapa editor Hristo Tanev editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, USA conference publication 979-8-89176-402-6 tanev-etal-2026-self https://aclanthology.org/2026.eeuca-1.8/ 2026-07 72 82 GENOME: A New Geopolitical Event Methodology and Dataset using Large Language Models Alessandro Dell’Orto author Jesse Kommandeur author 2026-07 text Proceedings of the 9th Workshop on Event Extraction and Understanding: Challenges and Applications (EEUCA 2026) Ali Hürriyetoğlu editor Surendrabikram Thapa editor Hristo Tanev editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, USA conference publication 979-8-89176-402-6 dellorto-kommandeur-2026-genome https://aclanthology.org/2026.eeuca-1.9/ 2026-07 83 95 FNLP412@EEUCA 2026: Understanding Toxic Behavioral Intent in Gaming Chat Logs using Transfer Learning and Synthetic Data Augmentation Mihai Radu Radulescu author 2026-07 text Proceedings of the 9th Workshop on Event Extraction and Understanding: Challenges and Applications (EEUCA 2026) Ali Hürriyetoğlu editor Surendrabikram Thapa editor Hristo Tanev editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, USA conference publication 979-8-89176-402-6 radulescu-2026-fnlp412 https://aclanthology.org/2026.eeuca-1.10/ 2026-07 96 103 wangkongqiang@EEUCA 2026: Understanding Toxic Behavioral Intent in Gaming Chat Logs Kongqiang Wang author Peng Zhang author Quingli Tan author 2026-07 text Proceedings of the 9th Workshop on Event Extraction and Understanding: Challenges and Applications (EEUCA 2026) Ali Hürriyetoğlu editor Surendrabikram Thapa editor Hristo Tanev editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, USA conference publication 979-8-89176-402-6 wang-etal-2026-wangkongqiang https://aclanthology.org/2026.eeuca-1.11/ 2026-07 104 111 wangkongqiang@EEUCA 2026: Multimodal Identification of Vaccine Critical Content on Social Media Kongqiang Wang author Peng Zhang author Quingli Tan author 2026-07 text Proceedings of the 9th Workshop on Event Extraction and Understanding: Challenges and Applications (EEUCA 2026) Ali Hürriyetoğlu editor Surendrabikram Thapa editor Hristo Tanev editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, USA conference publication 979-8-89176-402-6 wang-etal-2026-wangkongqiang-eeuca https://aclanthology.org/2026.eeuca-1.12/ 2026-07 112 121 Quasar@EEUCA 2026: Multimodal Deep Learning for Vaccine Stance Detection in Memes Adiba Fairooz Chowdhury author M D Sagor Chowdhury author 2026-07 text Proceedings of the 9th Workshop on Event Extraction and Understanding: Challenges and Applications (EEUCA 2026) Ali Hürriyetoğlu editor Surendrabikram Thapa editor Hristo Tanev editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, USA conference publication 979-8-89176-402-6 fairooz-chowdhury-sagor-chowdhury-2026-quasar https://aclanthology.org/2026.eeuca-1.13/ 2026-07 122 132 CUET_SYNTHETICA@EEUCA 2026: Gated Cross-Modal Attention with Domain-Adapted Text Encoding for Vaccine-Critical Meme Detection Sumaiya Zaman author Miftahul Jannat Rishta author Shiti Chowdhury author 2026-07 text Proceedings of the 9th Workshop on Event Extraction and Understanding: Challenges and Applications (EEUCA 2026) Ali Hürriyetoğlu editor Surendrabikram Thapa editor Hristo Tanev editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, USA conference publication 979-8-89176-402-6 zaman-etal-2026-cuet-synthetica https://aclanthology.org/2026.eeuca-1.14/ 2026-07 133 140 wenbin@EEUCA 2026: MoEs-VaxAgent, A Two-Stage Framework for Multimodal Vaccine Critical Meme Detection Wenbin Shen author 2026-07 text Proceedings of the 9th Workshop on Event Extraction and Understanding: Challenges and Applications (EEUCA 2026) Ali Hürriyetoğlu editor Surendrabikram Thapa editor Hristo Tanev editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, USA conference publication 979-8-89176-402-6 shen-2026-wenbin https://aclanthology.org/2026.eeuca-1.15/ 2026-07 141 150 thaulab@EEUCA 2026: Who Said What to Whom? A Targeting-Aware Neural-Symbolic Pipeline for Gaming Toxicity Detection Anmol Guragain author Marcos Estecha-Garitagoitia author Luis Fernando D’Haro author Ricardo de Córdoba author 2026-07 text Proceedings of the 9th Workshop on Event Extraction and Understanding: Challenges and Applications (EEUCA 2026) Ali Hürriyetoğlu editor Surendrabikram Thapa editor Hristo Tanev editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, USA conference publication 979-8-89176-402-6 guragain-etal-2026-thaulab https://aclanthology.org/2026.eeuca-1.16/ 2026-07 151 160 syuhhh@EEUCA 2026: A Three-Stage Progressive Training Framework for Fine-Grained Toxicity Detection in Online Gaming Communities Yuhao Shi author Yu Wang author Shengjie Zhao author 2026-07 text Proceedings of the 9th Workshop on Event Extraction and Understanding: Challenges and Applications (EEUCA 2026) Ali Hürriyetoğlu editor Surendrabikram Thapa editor Hristo Tanev editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, USA conference publication 979-8-89176-402-6 shi-etal-2026-syuhhh https://aclanthology.org/2026.eeuca-1.17/ 2026-07 161 168 CSECU-Learners@EEUCA 2026: Vaccine Critical Memes Identification using Two-Stage Early Fusion of Transformers Monir Ahmad author Md. Saif Uddin author 2026-07 text Proceedings of the 9th Workshop on Event Extraction and Understanding: Challenges and Applications (EEUCA 2026) Ali Hürriyetoğlu editor Surendrabikram Thapa editor Hristo Tanev editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, USA conference publication 979-8-89176-402-6 ahmad-uddin-2026-csecu https://aclanthology.org/2026.eeuca-1.18/ 2026-07 169 176 ShriNep@EEUCA 2026: RAKSHAK – Multi-Task DeBERTa with Rationale Distillation and Jigsaw-Augmented Training for Toxic Intent Classification Binayak Karki author Aryan Kafle author Pingala Ghimire author 2026-07 text Proceedings of the 9th Workshop on Event Extraction and Understanding: Challenges and Applications (EEUCA 2026) Ali Hürriyetoğlu editor Surendrabikram Thapa editor Hristo Tanev editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, USA conference publication 979-8-89176-402-6 karki-etal-2026-shrinep https://aclanthology.org/2026.eeuca-1.19/ 2026-07 177 184 _alexcristea@EEUCA 2026: A Robust Early-Fusion ERNIE Pipeline for Multimodal COVID-19 Vaccine Meme Classification Cristea Alexandru-Marian author Costin Ionescu author 2026-07 text Proceedings of the 9th Workshop on Event Extraction and Understanding: Challenges and Applications (EEUCA 2026) Ali Hürriyetoğlu editor Surendrabikram Thapa editor Hristo Tanev editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, USA conference publication 979-8-89176-402-6 alexandru-marian-ionescu-2026-alexcristea https://aclanthology.org/2026.eeuca-1.20/ 2026-07 185 191 PSK@EEUCA 2026: Fine-tuning Large Language Models with Synthetic Data Augmentation for Multi-class Toxicity Detection in Gaming Chat Srikar Kashyap Pulipaka author 2026-07 text Proceedings of the 9th Workshop on Event Extraction and Understanding: Challenges and Applications (EEUCA 2026) Ali Hürriyetoğlu editor Surendrabikram Thapa editor Hristo Tanev editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, USA conference publication 979-8-89176-402-6 pulipaka-2026-psk https://aclanthology.org/2026.eeuca-1.21/ 2026-07 192 197 TAGA@EEUCA 2026: Token-Attribution Guided Attention for Fine-Grained Toxic Behaviour Classification in Online Gaming Communities Akshyat Shah author Shashi Sah author Aryan Gupta author Kavinder Singh author 2026-07 text Proceedings of the 9th Workshop on Event Extraction and Understanding: Challenges and Applications (EEUCA 2026) Ali Hürriyetoğlu editor Surendrabikram Thapa editor Hristo Tanev editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, USA conference publication 979-8-89176-402-6 shah-etal-2026-taga https://aclanthology.org/2026.eeuca-1.22/ 2026-07 198 207 LilyMeme@EEUCA 2026: Multimodal Vaccine Meme Stance Detection with Task-Adapted MemeCLIP and Complementary Ensembling Yixuan Li author Xiaolong Yin author Yang Yang author 2026-07 text Proceedings of the 9th Workshop on Event Extraction and Understanding: Challenges and Applications (EEUCA 2026) Ali Hürriyetoğlu editor Surendrabikram Thapa editor Hristo Tanev editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, USA conference publication 979-8-89176-402-6 li-etal-2026-lilymeme https://aclanthology.org/2026.eeuca-1.23/ 2026-07 208 215 LINUS@EEUCA 2026: Fine-grained Toxicity Detection in Gaming Chat using Multilingual Transformers Prajwal Ghimire author Aashish Mahato author Sunil Regmi author 2026-07 text Proceedings of the 9th Workshop on Event Extraction and Understanding: Challenges and Applications (EEUCA 2026) Ali Hürriyetoğlu editor Surendrabikram Thapa editor Hristo Tanev editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, USA conference publication 979-8-89176-402-6 ghimire-etal-2026-linus https://aclanthology.org/2026.eeuca-1.24/ 2026-07 216 222 Linus@EEUCA 2026: Multimodal and Text-Only Approaches to Vaccine-Critical Meme Detection. Darwin Acharya author Shiv Ram Saud author Sunil Regmi author 2026-07 text Proceedings of the 9th Workshop on Event Extraction and Understanding: Challenges and Applications (EEUCA 2026) Ali Hürriyetoğlu editor Surendrabikram Thapa editor Hristo Tanev editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, USA conference publication 979-8-89176-402-6 acharya-etal-2026-linus https://aclanthology.org/2026.eeuca-1.25/ 2026-07 223 232