2026 EACL EACL 2026

Multi-Agent Procedural Graph Extraction with Structural and Logical Refinement

Abstract

AbstractAutomatically extracting workflows as procedural graphs from natural language is a promising yet underexplored task that requires ensuring both structural validity and logical alignment. Recent advances in large language models (LLMs) show potential for graph extraction, but often yield ill-formed structures or misinterpret logical constructs such as gateways. We introduce , a multi-agent framework that treats procedural graph extraction as a multi-round reasoning process with structural and logical refinement agents. The framework operates in three iterative stages: (1) an LLM-based graph extraction phase, (2) a structural feedback phase where a simulation agent diagnoses and explains structural issues, and (3) a logical feedback phase where a semantic agent aligns semantics between flow logic and linguistic cues in the source text. Important feedback is prioritized and expressed in natural language, which is injected into the next-round prompt, enabling interpretable and controllable refinement. This modular design allows agents to target distinct error types without supervision or parameter updates. Experiments demonstrate that achieves substantial improvements in both structural correctness and logical consistency over strong baselines.

🧭 Keyword Pioneer — structural validation
🐝 Cross-Pollinator — Artificial Intelligence, Computer Science, Computer Vision, Data Science & Analytics, Deep Learning, Healthcare & Medicine, Interdisciplinary, Knowledge & Reasoning, Machine Learning, Mathematics & Optimization, Natural Language Processing, Reinforcement Learning, Speech & Audio