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Document-level Relation Extraction (RE) requires extracting relations expressed within and across sentences. Recent works show that graph-based methods, usually constructing a document-level graph that captures document-aware interactions,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-06-08 Damai Dai , Jing Ren , Shuang Zeng , Baobao Chang , Zhifang Sui

The existing supervised relation extraction methods have achieved impressive performance in a closed-set setting, where the relations during both training and testing remain the same. In a more realistic open-set setting, unknown relations…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-06-09 Jun Zhao , Xin Zhao , Wenyu Zhan , Qi Zhang , Tao Gui , Zhongyu Wei , Yunwen Chen , Xiang Gao , Xuanjing Huang

We address the task of entity-relationship (E-R) retrieval, i.e, given a query characterizing types of two or more entities and relationships between them, retrieve the relevant tuples of related entities. Answering E-R queries requires…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2017-10-20 Pedro Saleiro , Natasa Milic-Frayling , Eduarda Mendes Rodrigues , Carlos Soares

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

We introduce an unsupervised discriminative model for the task of retrieving experts in online document collections. We exclusively employ textual evidence and avoid explicit feature engineering by learning distributed word representations…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2017-09-19 Christophe Van Gysel , Maarten de Rijke , Marcel Worring

Open relation extraction (OpenRE) is the task of extracting relation schemes from open-domain corpora. Most existing OpenRE methods either do not fully benefit from high-quality labeled corpora or can not learn semantic representation…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-06-02 Yutong Wang , Renze Lou , Kai Zhang , MaoYan Chen , Yujiu Yang

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

Relation extraction (RE) is an indispensable information extraction task in several disciplines. RE models typically assume that named entity recognition (NER) is already performed in a previous step by another independent model. Several…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-08-29 Tung Tran , Ramakanth Kavuluru

Relation extraction (RE) aims to extract potential relations according to the context of two entities, thus, deriving rational contexts from sentences plays an important role. Previous works either focus on how to leverage the entity…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-05-08 Xuming Hu , Zhaochen Hong , Chenwei Zhang , Irwin King , Philip S. Yu

Relation extraction (RE) is a standard information extraction task playing a major role in downstream applications such as knowledge discovery and question answering. Although decoder-only large language models are excelling in generative…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-07-28 Yuhang Jiang , Ramakanth Kavuluru

Joint entity and relation extraction plays a pivotal role in various applications, notably in the construction of knowledge graphs. Despite recent progress, existing approaches often fall short in two key aspects: richness of representation…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-04-22 Urchade Zaratiana , Nadi Tomeh , Yann Dauxais , Pierre Holat , Thierry Charnois

Distantly supervised relation extraction intrinsically suffers from noisy labels due to the strong assumption of distant supervision. Most prior works adopt a selective attention mechanism over sentences in a bag to denoise from wrongly…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-11-28 Yang Li , Guodong Long , Tao Shen , Tianyi Zhou , Lina Yao , Huan Huo , Jing Jiang

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

We present a novel graph-based neural network model for relation extraction. Our model treats multiple pairs in a sentence simultaneously and considers interactions among them. All the entities in a sentence are placed as nodes in a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-03-16 Fenia Christopoulou , Makoto Miwa , Sophia Ananiadou

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

Relational facts are an important component of human knowledge, which are hidden in vast amounts of text. In order to extract these facts from text, people have been working on relation extraction (RE) for years. From early pattern matching…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-10-01 Xu Han , Tianyu Gao , Yankai Lin , Hao Peng , Yaoliang Yang , Chaojun Xiao , Zhiyuan Liu , Peng Li , Maosong Sun , Jie Zhou

Knowledge bases (KBs) store rich yet heterogeneous entities and facts. Entity resolution (ER) aims to identify entities in KBs which refer to the same real-world object. Recent studies have shown significant benefits of involving humans in…

Databases · Computer Science 2020-02-24 Jiacheng Huang , Wei Hu , Zhifeng Bao , Yuzhong Qu

In entity linking, mentions of named entities in raw text are disambiguated against a knowledge base (KB). This work focuses on linking to unseen KBs that do not have training data and whose schema is unknown during training. Our approach…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-10-23 Yogarshi Vyas , Miguel Ballesteros

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

Named Entity Recognition seeks to extract substrings within a text that name real-world objects and to determine their type (for example, whether they refer to persons or organizations). In this survey, we first present an overview of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-12-23 Imed Keraghel , Stanislas Morbieu , Mohamed Nadif