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Relation extraction (RE) aims to identify relations between entities mentioned in texts. Although large language models (LLMs) have demonstrated impressive in-context learning (ICL) abilities in various tasks, they still suffer from poor…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-04-30 Guozheng Li , Peng Wang , Wenjun Ke , Yikai Guo , Ke Ji , Ziyu Shang , Jiajun Liu , Zijie Xu

Over the last five years, research on Relation Extraction (RE) witnessed extensive progress with many new dataset releases. At the same time, setup clarity has decreased, contributing to increased difficulty of reliable empirical evaluation…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-04-29 Elisa Bassignana , Barbara Plank

In the context of requirements engineering, relation extraction involves identifying and documenting the associations between different requirements artefacts. When dealing with textual requirements (i.e., requirements expressed using…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-03-21 Quim Motger , Xavier Franch

Extracting biographical information from online documents is a popular research topic among the information extraction (IE) community. Various natural language processing (NLP) techniques such as text classification, text summarisation and…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-05-03 Alistair Plum , Tharindu Ranasinghe , Spencer Jones , Constantin Orasan , Ruslan Mitkov

The task of Information Extraction (IE) involves automatically converting unstructured textual content into structured data. Most research in this field concentrates on extracting all facts or a specific set of relationships from documents.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-01-19 Nicolas Gutehrlé , Iana Atanassova

Relation Extraction (RE) serves as a crucial technology for transforming unstructured text into structured information, especially within the framework of Knowledge Graph development. Its importance is emphasized by its essential role in…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-06-27 Dawulie Jinensibieke , Mieradilijiang Maimaiti , Wentao Xiao , Yuanhang Zheng , Xiaobo Wang

Open Information Extraction (OIE) task aims at extracting structured facts from unstructured text, typically in the form of (subject, relation, object) triples. Despite the potential of large language models (LLMs) like ChatGPT as a general…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-09-08 Chen Ling , Xujiang Zhao , Xuchao Zhang , Yanchi Liu , Wei Cheng , Haoyu Wang , Zhengzhang Chen , Takao Osaki , Katsushi Matsuda , Haifeng Chen , Liang Zhao

Representing unstructured data in a structured form is most significant for information system management to analyze and interpret it. To do this, the unstructured data might be converted into Knowledge Graphs, by leveraging an information…

Digital Libraries · Computer Science 2024-04-30 Sefika Efeoglu

Document-level relation extraction (DocRE) poses the challenge of identifying relationships between entities within a document as opposed to the traditional RE setting where a single sentence is input. Existing approaches rely on logical…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-01-23 Monika Jain , Raghava Mutharaju , Ramakanth Kavuluru , Kuldeep Singh

Unsupervised relation extraction (URE) extracts relations between named entities from raw text without manually-labelled data and existing knowledge bases (KBs). URE methods can be categorised into generative and discriminative approaches,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-05-04 Thy Thy Tran , Phong Le , Sophia Ananiadou

Extracting relations is critical for knowledge base completion and construction in which distant supervised methods are widely used to extract relational facts automatically with the existing knowledge bases. However, the automatically…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-11-09 Tianyi Liu , Xinsong Zhang , Wanhao Zhou , Weijia Jia

The main purpose of relation extraction is to extract the semantic relationships between tagged pairs of entities in a sentence, which plays an important role in the semantic understanding of sentences and the construction of knowledge…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-03-21 Chenghong Sun , Weidong Ji , Guohui Zhou , Hui Guo , Zengxiang Yin , Yuqi Yue

Multiple entities in a document generally exhibit complex inter-sentence relations, and cannot be well handled by existing relation extraction (RE) methods that typically focus on extracting intra-sentence relations for single entity pairs.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-08-12 Yuan Yao , Deming Ye , Peng Li , Xu Han , Yankai Lin , Zhenghao Liu , Zhiyuan Liu , Lixin Huang , Jie Zhou , Maosong Sun

Relation extraction (RE) is a fundamental task in natural language processing, aiming to identify relations between target entities in text. While many RE methods are designed for a single sentence or document, cross-document RE has emerged…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-06-03 Byeonghu Na , Suhyeon Jo , Yeongmin Kim , Il-Chul Moon

This article presents a systematic review of relation extraction (RE) research since the advent of Transformer-based models. Using an automated framework to collect and annotate publications, we analyze 34 surveys, 64 datasets, and 104…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-11-24 Ringwald Celian , Gandon , Fabien , Faron Catherine , Michel Franck , Abi Akl Hanna

Document-level relation extraction (DocRE) is an active area of research in natural language processing (NLP) concerned with identifying and extracting relationships between entities beyond sentence boundaries. Compared to the more…

Relation extraction (RE) consists in categorizing the relationship between entities in a sentence. A recent paradigm to develop relation extractors is Distant Supervision (DS), which allows the automatic creation of new datasets by taking…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-10-20 Johny Moreira , Chaina Oliveira , David Macêdo , Cleber Zanchettin , Luciano Barbosa

Open information extraction (IE) is the task of extracting open-domain assertions from natural language sentences. A key step in open IE is confidence modeling, ranking the extractions based on their estimated quality to adjust precision…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-06-03 Zhengbao Jiang , Pengcheng Yin , Graham Neubig

Conventional closed-world information extraction (IE) approaches rely on human ontologies to define the scope for extraction. As a result, such approaches fall short when applied to new domains. This calls for systems that can automatically…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-12-02 Sha Li , Heng Ji , Jiawei Han

Dialogue relation extraction (DRE) aims to detect the relation between two entities mentioned in a multi-party dialogue. It plays an important role in constructing knowledge graphs from conversational data increasingly abundant on the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-06-22 Hui Chen , Pengfei Hong , Wei Han , Navonil Majumder , Soujanya Poria