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The essence of distantly supervised relation extraction is that it is an incomplete multi-label classification problem with sparse and noisy features. To tackle the sparsity and noise challenges, we propose solving the classification…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2014-11-18 Miao Fan , Deli Zhao , Qiang Zhou , Zhiyuan Liu , Thomas Fang Zheng , Edward Y. Chang

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

Relation extraction (RE) aims to extract the relations between entity names from the textual context. In principle, textual context determines the ground-truth relation and the RE models should be able to correctly identify the relations…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-05-08 Yiwei Wang , Bryan Hooi , Fei Wang , Yujun Cai , Yuxuan Liang , Wenxuan Zhou , Jing Tang , Manjuan Duan , Muhao Chen

The large volume of text in electronic healthcare records often remains underused due to a lack of methodologies to extract interpretable content. Here we present an unsupervised framework for the analysis of free text that combines…

We introduce a weakly supervised approach for inferring the property of abstractness of words and expressions in the complete absence of labeled data. Exploiting only minimal linguistic clues and the contextual usage of a concept as…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-09-06 Ella Rabinovich , Benjamin Sznajder , Artem Spector , Ilya Shnayderman , Ranit Aharonov , David Konopnicki , Noam Slonim

Sentence embeddings encode natural language sentences as low-dimensional dense vectors. A great deal of effort has been put into using sentence embeddings to improve several important natural language processing tasks. Relation extraction…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-09-24 Alexander Kalinowski , Yuan An

We explore semantic correspondence estimation through the lens of unsupervised learning. We thoroughly evaluate several recently proposed unsupervised methods across multiple challenging datasets using a standardized evaluation protocol…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-12 Mehmet Aygün , Oisin Mac Aodha

In language modeling, it is difficult to incorporate entity relationships from a knowledge-base. One solution is to use a reranker trained with global features, in which global features are derived from n-best lists. However, training such…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-06-19 Mohammad Sadegh Rasooli , Sarangarajan Parthasarathy

Existing knowledge-based question answering systems often rely on small annotated training data. While shallow methods like relation extraction are robust to data scarcity, they are less expressive than the deep meaning representation…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2016-06-10 Kun Xu , Siva Reddy , Yansong Feng , Songfang Huang , Dongyan Zhao

Neural network approaches to Named-Entity Recognition reduce the need for carefully hand-crafted features. While some features do remain in state-of-the-art systems, lexical features have been mostly discarded, with the exception of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-06-12 Abbas Ghaddar , Philippe Langlais

Automatic relation extraction (RE) for types of interest is of great importance for interpreting massive text corpora in an efficient manner. Traditional RE models have heavily relied on human-annotated corpus for training, which can be…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-11-27 Zeqiu Wu , Xiang Ren , Frank F. Xu , Ji Li , Jiawei Han

Extracting entities and relations for types of interest from text is important for understanding massive text corpora. Traditionally, systems of entity relation extraction have relied on human-annotated corpora for training and adopted an…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-06-06 Xiang Ren , Zeqiu Wu , Wenqi He , Meng Qu , Clare R. Voss , Heng Ji , Tarek F. Abdelzaher , Jiawei Han

The goal of unsupervised representation learning is to extract a new representation of data, such that solving many different tasks becomes easier. Existing methods typically focus on vectorized data and offer little support for relational…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-09-29 Sebastijan Dumancic , Hendrik Blockeel

Relation extraction (RE) plays an important role in extracting knowledge from unstructured text but requires a large amount of labeled corpus. To reduce the expensive annotation efforts, semisupervised learning aims to leverage both labeled…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-03-16 Yusen Lin

Distant supervision for relation extraction enables one to effectively acquire structured relations out of very large text corpora with less human efforts. Nevertheless, most of the prior-art models for such tasks assume that the given text…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-09-13 Junfan Chen , Richong Zhang , Yongyi Mao , Hongyu Guo , Jie Xu

Despite its popularity in sentence-level relation extraction, distantly supervised data is rarely utilized by existing work in document-level relation extraction due to its noisy nature and low information density. Among its current…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-07-02 Xiangyu Lin , Weijia Jia , Zhiguo Gong

We present an approach to minimally supervised relation extraction that combines the benefits of learned representations and structured learning, and accurately predicts sentence-level relation mentions given only proposition-level…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-11-20 Fan Bai , Alan Ritter

Relation extraction (RE) is a crucial task in natural language processing (NLP) that aims to identify and classify relationships between entities mentioned in text. In the financial domain, relation extraction plays a vital role in…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-07-24 Pawan Kumar Rajpoot , Ankur Parikh

Extracting relations across large text spans has been relatively underexplored in NLP, but it is particularly important for high-value domains such as biomedicine, where obtaining high recall of the latest findings is crucial for practical…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-09-14 Sheng Zhang , Cliff Wong , Naoto Usuyama , Sarthak Jain , Tristan Naumann , Hoifung Poon

We present an architecture for information extraction from text that augments an existing parser with a character-level neural network. The network is trained using a measure of consistency of extracted data with existing databases as a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-01-25 Philipp Meerkamp , Zhengyi Zhou