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NC-DRE: Leveraging Non-entity Clue Information for Document-level Relation Extraction

Computation and Language 2022-04-04 v1

Abstract

Document-level relation extraction (RE), which requires reasoning on multiple entities in different sentences to identify complex inter-sentence relations, is more challenging than sentence-level RE. To extract the complex inter-sentence relations, previous studies usually employ graph neural networks (GNN) to perform inference upon heterogeneous document-graphs. Despite their great successes, these graph-based methods, which normally only consider the words within the mentions in the process of building graphs and reasoning, tend to ignore the non-entity clue words that are not in the mentions but provide important clue information for relation reasoning. To alleviate this problem, we treat graph-based document-level RE models as an encoder-decoder framework, which typically uses a pre-trained language model as the encoder and a GNN model as the decoder, and propose a novel graph-based model NC-DRE that introduces decoder-to-encoder attention mechanism to leverage Non-entity Clue information for Document-level Relation Extraction.

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Cite

@article{arxiv.2204.00255,
  title  = {NC-DRE: Leveraging Non-entity Clue Information for Document-level Relation Extraction},
  author = {Liang Zhang and Yidong Cheng},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2204.00255},
  year   = {2022}
}
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