Abstract: A method and apparatus for training a few-shot event detection model based on multilingual prompt learning are provided, which includes: acquiring a training data set, applying a multilingual prompt model to any instance to obtain a predicted probability distribution of a trigger tag, so as to obtain a first loss; generating a contrastive instance and a bilingual instance, and performing multilingual prompt and cross-lingual encoding according to the input instance and the bilingual instance by applying the multilingual prompt model to obtain joint event characterization; performing event tag prediction on the joint event characterization by applying a two-level hierarchical prototype network model, and calculating a second loss; performing contrastive learning on respective instances by applying a quaternary contrastive learning module to obtain a third loss; determining a total loss of the few-shot event detection model according to respective losses, and performing model training optimization based on the