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A Global-Local Attention Mechanism for Relation Classification

Computation and Language 2024-07-02 v1 Information Retrieval

Abstract

Relation classification, a crucial component of relation extraction, involves identifying connections between two entities. Previous studies have predominantly focused on integrating the attention mechanism into relation classification at a global scale, overlooking the importance of the local context. To address this gap, this paper introduces a novel global-local attention mechanism for relation classification, which enhances global attention with a localized focus. Additionally, we propose innovative hard and soft localization mechanisms to identify potential keywords for local attention. By incorporating both hard and soft localization strategies, our approach offers a more nuanced and comprehensive understanding of the contextual cues that contribute to effective relation classification. Our experimental results on the SemEval-2010 Task 8 dataset highlight the superior performance of our method compared to previous attention-based approaches in relation classification.

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@article{arxiv.2407.01424,
  title  = {A Global-Local Attention Mechanism for Relation Classification},
  author = {Yiping Sun},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2407.01424},
  year   = {2024}
}

Comments

This paper has been accepted by the 2024 20th International Conference on Natural Computation, Fuzzy Systems and Knowledge Discovery (ICNC-FSKD)

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