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Acronym extraction aims to find acronyms (i.e., short-forms) and their meanings (i.e., long-forms) from the documents, which is important for scientific document understanding (SDU@AAAI-22) tasks. Previous works are devoted to modeling this…

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Relation extraction is a crucial task in natural language processing, with broad applications in knowledge graph construction and literary analysis. However, the complex context and implicit expressions in novel texts pose significant…

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Aggregated data obtained from job postings provide powerful insights into labor market demands, and emerging skills, and aid job matching. However, most extraction approaches are supervised and thus need costly and time-consuming…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-09-19 Mike Zhang , Kristian Nørgaard Jensen , Rob van der Goot , Barbara Plank

Many real world systems need to operate on heterogeneous information networks that consist of numerous interacting components of different types. Examples include systems that perform data analysis on biological information networks; social…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2017-07-26 Parisa Kordjamshidi , Sameer Singh , Daniel Khashabi , Christos Christodoulopoulos , Mark Summons , Saurabh Sinha , Dan Roth

Distance covariance is a widely used statistical methodology for testing the dependency between two groups of variables. Despite the appealing properties of consistency and superior testing power, the testing results of distance covariance…

Methodology · Statistics 2026-03-20 Andi Wang , Hao Yan , Juan Du

Distant supervision (DS) is a well established technique for creating large-scale datasets for relation extraction (RE) without using human annotations. However, research in DS-RE has been mostly limited to the English language.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-04-20 Abhyuday Bhartiya , Kartikeya Badola , Mausam

Relation extraction (RE) is a core task in natural language processing. Traditional approaches typically frame RE as a supervised learning problem, directly mapping context to labels-an approach that often suffers from poor out-of-domain…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-08-07 Runpeng Dai , Tong Zheng , Run Yang , Kaixian Yu , Hongtu Zhu

Open relation extraction is the task of extracting open-domain relation facts from natural language sentences. Existing works either utilize heuristics or distant-supervised annotations to train a supervised classifier over pre-defined…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-10-07 Xuming Hu , Chenwei Zhang , Yusong Xu , Lijie Wen , Philip S. Yu

Real-world data, such as news articles, social media posts, and chatbot conversations, is inherently dynamic and non-stationary, presenting significant challenges for constructing real-time structured representations through knowledge…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-08-26 Sefika Efeoglu , Adrian Paschke , Sonja Schimmler

Distantly supervised (DS) relation extraction (RE) has attracted much attention in the past few years as it can utilize large-scale auto-labeled data. However, its evaluation has long been a problem: previous works either took costly and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-05-21 Tianyu Gao , Xu Han , Keyue Qiu , Yuzhuo Bai , Zhiyu Xie , Yankai Lin , Zhiyuan Liu , Peng Li , Maosong Sun , Jie Zhou

Document-level relation extraction (DocRE) is a task that focuses on identifying relations between entities within a document. However, existing DocRE models often overlook the correlation between relations and lack a quantitative analysis…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-10-23 Yusheng Huang , Zhouhan Lin

Natural language processing is an important discipline with the aim of understanding text by its digital representation, that due to the diverse way we write and speak, is often not accurate enough. Our paper explores different…

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This paper reports on modern approaches in Information Extraction (IE) and its two main sub-tasks of Named Entity Recognition (NER) and Relation Extraction (RE). Basic concepts and the most recent approaches in this area are reviewed, which…

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We explore methods to extract relations between named entities from free text in an unsupervised setting. In addition to standard feature extraction, we develop a novel method to re-weight word embeddings. We alleviate the problem of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-01-23 Hady Elsahar , Elena Demidova , Simon Gottschalk , Christophe Gravier , Frederique Laforest

Relational databases (RDBs) underpin the majority of global data management systems, where information is structured into multiple interdependent tables. To effectively use the knowledge within RDBs for predictive tasks, recent advances…

Databases · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Xinyi Gao , Jingxi Zhang , Lijian Chen , Tong Chen , Lizhen Cui , Hongzhi Yin

Distant supervision for relation extraction heavily suffers from the wrong labeling problem. To alleviate this issue in news data with the timestamp, we take a new factor time into consideration and propose a novel time-aware distant…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-03-11 Tianwen Jiang , Sendong Zhao , Jing Liu , Jin-Ge Yao , Ming Liu , Bing Qin , Ting Liu , Chin-Yew Lin

In this research, we combine Transformer-based relation extraction with matching of knowledge graphs (KGs) and apply them to answering multiple-choice questions (MCQs) while maintaining the traceability of the output process. KGs are…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-11-19 Naoki Shimoda , Akihiro Yamamoto

Automatic relationship extraction (RE) from biomedical literature is critical for managing the vast amount of scientific knowledge produced each year. In recent years, utilizing pre-trained language models (PLMs) has become the prevalent…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-11-04 Mario Sänger , Ulf Leser

Medical Relation Extraction (MRE) task aims to extract relations between entities in medical texts. Traditional relation extraction methods achieve impressive success by exploring the syntactic information, e.g., dependency tree. However,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-08-30 Yifan Jin , Jiangmeng Li , Zheng Lian , Chengbo Jiao , Xiaohui Hu

LocatedNear relation is a kind of commonsense knowledge describing two physical objects that are typically found near each other in real life. In this paper, we study how to automatically extract such relationship through a sentence-level…

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