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Relation extraction is the task of determining the relation between two entities in a sentence. Distantly-supervised models are popular for this task. However, sentences can be long and two entities can be located far from each other in a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-12-10 Tapas Nayak , Hwee Tou Ng

Distant supervision (DS) has been widely used to generate auto-labeled data for sentence-level relation extraction (RE), which improves RE performance. However, the existing success of DS cannot be directly transferred to the more…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-11-10 Chaojun Xiao , Yuan Yao , Ruobing Xie , Xu Han , Zhiyuan Liu , Maosong Sun , Fen Lin , Leyu Lin

Detecting AI-involved text is essential for combating misinformation, plagiarism, and academic misconduct. However, AI text generation includes diverse collaborative processes (AI-written text edited by humans, human-written text edited by…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-10-21 Yongxin He , Shan Zhang , Yixuan Cao , Lei Ma , Ping Luo

Named entity disambiguation (NED), which involves mapping textual mentions to structured entities, is particularly challenging in the medical domain due to the presence of rare entities. Existing approaches are limited by the presence of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-10-18 Maya Varma , Laurel Orr , Sen Wu , Megan Leszczynski , Xiao Ling , Christopher Ré

This paper explores how the Distantly Supervised Relation Extraction (DS-RE) can benefit from the use of a Universal Graph (UG), the combination of a Knowledge Graph (KG) and a large-scale text collection. A straightforward extension of a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-05-07 Qin Dai , Naoya Inoue , Ryo Takahashi , Kentaro Inui

Relation Extraction (RE) is a foundational task of natural language processing. RE seeks to transform raw, unstructured text into structured knowledge by identifying relational information between entity pairs found in text. RE has numerous…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-07-19 William Hogan

Patient similarity assessment, which identifies patients similar to a given patient, can help improve medical care. The assessment can be performed using Electronic Medical Records (EMRs). Patient similarity measurement requires converting…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-09-20 Hoda Memarzadeh , Nasser Ghadiri , Matthias Samwald , Maryam Lotfi Shahreza

We conduct an empirical analysis of neural network architectures and data transfer strategies for causal relation extraction. By conducting experiments with various contextual embedding layers and architectural components, we show that a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-03-11 Sydney Anuyah , Jack Vanschaik , Palak Jain , Sawyer Lehman , Sunandan Chakraborty

Unsupervised relation extraction (URE) aims to extract relations between named entities from raw text without requiring manual annotations or pre-existing knowledge bases. In recent studies of URE, researchers put a notable emphasis on…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-12-04 Qing Wang , Kang Zhou , Qiao Qiao , Yuepei Li , Qi Li

Deep learning based techniques have been recently used with promising results for data integration problems. Some methods directly use pre-trained embeddings that were trained on a large corpus such as Wikipedia. However, they may not…

Databases · Computer Science 2020-09-04 Riccardo Cappuzzo , Paolo Papotti , Saravanan Thirumuruganathan

The relation extraction (RE) in complex scenarios faces challenges such as diverse relation types and ambiguous relations between entities within a single sentence, leading to the poor performance of pure "text-in, text-out" language models…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-09-04 Yuchen Shi , Guochao Jiang , Tian Qiu , Deqing Yang

Information Extraction (IE) is a transformative process that converts unstructured text data into a structured format by employing entity and relation extraction (RE) methodologies. The identification of the relation between a pair of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-10-29 Sefika Efeoglu , Adrian Paschke

Adverse event (AE) extraction following COVID-19 vaccines from text data is crucial for monitoring and analyzing the safety profiles of immunizations. Traditional deep learning models are adept at learning intricate feature representations…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-06-27 Yiming Li , Deepthi Viswaroopan , William He , Jianfu Li , Xu Zuo , Hua Xu , Cui Tao

Understanding the meaning of text often involves reasoning about entities and their relationships. This requires identifying textual mentions of entities, linking them to a canonical concept, and discerning their relationships. These tasks…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-12-04 Trapit Bansal , Pat Verga , Neha Choudhary , Andrew McCallum

In creating sentence embeddings for Natural Language Inference (NLI) tasks, using transformer-based models like BERT leads to high accuracy, but require hundreds of millions of parameters. These models take in sentences as a sequence of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-12-17 Jason Lunder

Dependency tree structures capture long-distance and syntactic relationships between words in a sentence. The syntactic relations (e.g., nominal subject, object) can potentially infer the existence of certain named entities. In addition,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-09-24 Zhanming Jie , Wei Lu

Recently, deep neural networks have expanded the state-of-art in various scientific fields and provided solutions to long standing problems across multiple application domains. Nevertheless, they also suffer from weaknesses since their…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-03 Felipe Kenji Nakano , Konstantinos Pliakos , Celine Vens

The challenge of recognizing named entities in a given text has been a very dynamic field in recent years. This is due to the advances in neural network architectures, increase of computing power and the availability of diverse labeled…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-01-10 Nasi Jofche , Kostadin Mishev , Riste Stojanov , Milos Jovanovik , Dimitar Trajanov

This paper studies the performances of BERT combined with tree structure in short sentence ranking task. In retrieval-based question answering system, we retrieve the most similar question of the query question by ranking all the questions…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-09-09 Tong Guo , Huilin Gao

Enterprise relation extraction aims to detect pairs of enterprise entities and identify the business relations between them from unstructured or semi-structured text data, and it is crucial for several real-world applications such as risk…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-10-20 Peipei Liu , Hong Li , Zhiyu Wang , Yimo Ren , Jie Liu , Fei Lyu , Hongsong Zhu , Limin Sun