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Multi-Attribute Relation Extraction (MARE) -- Simplifying the Application of Relation Extraction

Computation and Language 2021-11-18 v1 Artificial Intelligence Information Retrieval Machine Learning

Abstract

Natural language understanding's relation extraction makes innovative and encouraging novel business concepts possible and facilitates new digitilized decision-making processes. Current approaches allow the extraction of relations with a fixed number of entities as attributes. Extracting relations with an arbitrary amount of attributes requires complex systems and costly relation-trigger annotations to assist these systems. We introduce multi-attribute relation extraction (MARE) as an assumption-less problem formulation with two approaches, facilitating an explicit mapping from business use cases to the data annotations. Avoiding elaborated annotation constraints simplifies the application of relation extraction approaches. The evaluation compares our models to current state-of-the-art event extraction and binary relation extraction methods. Our approaches show improvement compared to these on the extraction of general multi-attribute relations.

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@article{arxiv.2111.09035,
  title  = {Multi-Attribute Relation Extraction (MARE) -- Simplifying the Application of Relation Extraction},
  author = {Lars Klöser and Philipp Kohl and Bodo Kraft and Albert Zündorf},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2111.09035},
  year   = {2021}
}

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Preprint of short paper for the 2nd International Conference on Deep Learning Theory and Applications (2021)

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