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Automatic Error Analysis for Document-level Information Extraction

Computation and Language 2022-09-16 v1

Abstract

Document-level information extraction (IE) tasks have recently begun to be revisited in earnest using the end-to-end neural network techniques that have been successful on their sentence-level IE counterparts. Evaluation of the approaches, however, has been limited in a number of dimensions. In particular, the precision/recall/F1 scores typically reported provide few insights on the range of errors the models make. We build on the work of Kummerfeld and Klein (2013) to propose a transformation-based framework for automating error analysis in document-level event and (N-ary) relation extraction. We employ our framework to compare two state-of-the-art document-level template-filling approaches on datasets from three domains; and then, to gauge progress in IE since its inception 30 years ago, vs. four systems from the MUC-4 (1992) evaluation.

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@article{arxiv.2209.07442,
  title  = {Automatic Error Analysis for Document-level Information Extraction},
  author = {Aliva Das and Xinya Du and Barry Wang and Kejian Shi and Jiayuan Gu and Thomas Porter and Claire Cardie},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2209.07442},
  year   = {2022}
}

Comments

Accepted to ACL 2022 Main Conference. First three authors contributed equally to this work