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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

This paper proposes a novel approach for relation extraction from free text which is trained to jointly use information from the text and from existing knowledge. Our model is based on two scoring functions that operate by learning…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2013-08-02 Jason Weston , Antoine Bordes , Oksana Yakhnenko , Nicolas Usunier

Distantly supervised relation extraction has been widely used to find novel relational facts from plain text. To predict the relation between a pair of two target entities, existing methods solely rely on those direct sentences containing…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-09-15 Wenyuan Zeng , Yankai Lin , Zhiyuan Liu , Maosong Sun

Knowledge graphs are graphical representations of large databases of facts, which typically suffer from incompleteness. Inferring missing relations (links) between entities (nodes) is the task of link prediction. A recent state-of-the-art…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-09-12 Ivana Balažević , Carl Allen , Timothy M. Hospedales

This paper presents a question answering system that operates exclusively on a knowledge graph retrieval without relying on retrieval augmented generation (RAG) with large language models (LLMs). Instead, a small paraphraser model is used…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-10-23 Kartikeya Aneja , Manasvi Srivastava , Subhayan Das , Nagender Aneja

Knowledge graph (KG) link prediction aims to infer new facts based on existing facts in the KG. Recent studies have shown that using the graph neighborhood of a node via graph neural networks (GNNs) provides more useful information compared…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-02-15 Vardaan Pahuja , Boshi Wang , Hugo Latapie , Jayanth Srinivasa , Yu Su

Relation extraction is the task of identifying predefined relationship between entities, and plays an essential role in information extraction, knowledge base construction, question answering and so on. Most existing relation extractors…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-11-12 Liwei Chen , Yansong Feng , Songfang Huang , Bingfeng Luo , Dongyan Zhao

We report an evaluation of the effectiveness of the existing knowledge base embedding models for relation prediction and for relation extraction on a wide range of benchmarks. We also describe a new benchmark, which is much larger and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-02-07 Peng Xu , Denilson Barbosa

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

Knowledge graph based simple question answering (KBSQA) is a major area of research within question answering. Although only dealing with simple questions, i.e., questions that can be answered through a single knowledge base (KB) fact, this…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-02-13 Wenbo Zhao , Tagyoung Chung , Anuj Goyal , Angeliki Metallinou

Dependency trees help relation extraction models capture long-range relations between words. However, existing dependency-based models either neglect crucial information (e.g., negation) by pruning the dependency trees too aggressively, or…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-09-28 Yuhao Zhang , Peng Qi , Christopher D. Manning

We study question answering over a dynamic textual environment. Although neural network models achieve impressive accuracy via learning from input-output examples, they rarely leverage various types of knowledge and are generally not…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-04-28 Wanjun Zhong , Duyu Tang , Nan Duan , Ming Zhou , Jiahai Wang , Jian Yin

In this paper, we propose a novel method for question answering over knowledge graphs based on graph-to-segment mapping, designed to improve the understanding of natural language questions. Our approach is grounded in semantic parsing, a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-09-03 Sijia Wei , Wenwen Zhang , Qisong Li , Jiang Zhao

We aim to provide table answers to keyword queries against knowledge bases. For queries referring to multiple entities, like "Washington cities population" and "Mel Gibson movies", it is better to represent each relevant answer as a table…

Databases · Computer Science 2014-09-05 Mohan Yang , Bolin Ding , Surajit Chaudhuri , Kaushik Chakrabarti

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

In natural language, often multiple entities appear in the same text. However, most previous works in Relation Extraction (RE) limit the scope to identifying the relation between two entities at a time. Such an approach induces a quadratic…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-10-13 Zhijing Jin , Yongyi Yang , Xipeng Qiu , Zheng Zhang

In this paper, we propose convolutional neural networks for learning an optimal representation of question and answer sentences. Their main aspect is the use of relational information given by the matches between words from the two members…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2016-04-06 Aliaksei Severyn , Alessandro Moschitti

In this paper, we conduct an empirical investigation of neural query graph ranking approaches for the task of complex question answering over knowledge graphs. We experiment with six different ranking models and propose a novel…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-11-06 Gaurav Maheshwari , Priyansh Trivedi , Denis Lukovnikov , Nilesh Chakraborty , Asja Fischer , Jens Lehmann

Relation extraction is an important but challenging task that aims to extract all hidden relational facts from the text. With the development of deep language models, relation extraction methods have achieved good performance on various…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-08-17 Sheng Zhang , Patrick Ng , Zhiguo Wang , Bing Xiang

We examine the impact of incorporating knowledge graph information on the performance of relation extraction models across a range of datasets. Our hypothesis is that the positions of entities within a knowledge graph provide important…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-06-23 Cedric Möller , Ricardo Usbeck