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RECON: Relation Extraction using Knowledge Graph Context in a Graph Neural Network

Computation and Language 2021-01-19 v2 Artificial Intelligence

Abstract

In this paper, we present a novel method named RECON, that automatically identifies relations in a sentence (sentential relation extraction) and aligns to a knowledge graph (KG). RECON uses a graph neural network to learn representations of both the sentence as well as facts stored in a KG, improving the overall extraction quality. These facts, including entity attributes (label, alias, description, instance-of) and factual triples, have not been collectively used in the state of the art methods. We evaluate the effect of various forms of representing the KG context on the performance of RECON. The empirical evaluation on two standard relation extraction datasets shows that RECON significantly outperforms all state of the art methods on NYT Freebase and Wikidata datasets. RECON reports 87.23 F1 score (Vs 82.29 baseline) on Wikidata dataset whereas on NYT Freebase, reported values are 87.5(P@10) and 74.1(P@30) compared to the previous baseline scores of 81.3(P@10) and 63.1(P@30).

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@article{arxiv.2009.08694,
  title  = {RECON: Relation Extraction using Knowledge Graph Context in a Graph Neural Network},
  author = {Anson Bastos and Abhishek Nadgeri and Kuldeep Singh and Isaiah Onando Mulang' and Saeedeh Shekarpour and Johannes Hoffart and Manohar Kaul},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2009.08694},
  year   = {2021}
}

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