The current workflow for Information Extraction (IE) analysts involves the definition of the entities/relations of interest and a training corpus with annotated examples. In this demonstration we introduce a new workflow where the analyst directly verbalizes the entities/relations, which are then used by a Textual Entailment model to perform zero-shot IE. We present the design and implementation of a toolkit with a user interface, as well as experiments on four IE tasks that show that the system achieves very good performance at zero-shot learning using only 5--15 minutes per type of a user's effort. Our demonstration system is open-sourced at https://github.com/BBN-E/ZS4IE . A demonstration video is available at https://vimeo.com/676138340 .
@article{arxiv.2203.13602,
title = {ZS4IE: A toolkit for Zero-Shot Information Extraction with simple Verbalizations},
author = {Oscar Sainz and Haoling Qiu and Oier Lopez de Lacalle and Eneko Agirre and Bonan Min},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2203.13602},
year = {2022}
}