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We present a novel approach to improve the performance of distant supervision relation extraction with Positive and Unlabeled (PU) Learning. This approach first applies reinforcement learning to decide whether a sentence is positive to a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-12-02 Zhengqiu He , Wenliang Chen , Yuyi Wang , Wei zhang , Guanchun Wang , Min Zhang

Semantic matching is a mainstream paradigm of zero-shot relation extraction, which matches a given input with a corresponding label description. The entities in the input should exactly match their hypernyms in the description, while the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-06-09 Jun Zhao , Wenyu Zhan , Xin Zhao , Qi Zhang , Tao Gui , Zhongyu Wei , Junzhe Wang , Minlong Peng , Mingming Sun

For Relation Extraction (RE), the manual annotation of training data may be prohibitively expensive, since the sentences that contain the target relations in texts can be very scarce and difficult to find. It is therefore beneficial to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-09-11 Zexuan Li , Hongliang Dai , Piji Li

Zero-shot learning has received increasing interest as a means to alleviate the often prohibitive expense of annotating training data for large scale recognition problems. These methods have achieved great success via learning intermediate…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2015-03-27 Yanwei Fu , Yongxin Yang , Tim Hospedales , Tao Xiang , Shaogang Gong

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

Relation extraction is an important task in structuring content of text data, and becomes especially challenging when learning with weak supervision---where only a limited number of labeled sentences are given and a large number of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-02-26 Hongtao Lin , Jun Yan , Meng Qu , Xiang Ren

Relation extraction aims to extract relational facts from sentences. Previous models mainly rely on manually labeled datasets, seed instances or human-crafted patterns, and distant supervision. However, the human annotation is expensive,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-08-23 Ningyu Zhang , Shumin Deng , Zhanlin Sun , Jiaoyan Chen , Wei Zhang , Huajun Chen

We present a conceptually simple, flexible, and general framework for few-shot learning, where a classifier must learn to recognise new classes given only few examples from each. Our method, called the Relation Network (RN), is trained…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-03-28 Flood Sung , Yongxin Yang , Li Zhang , Tao Xiang , Philip H. S. Torr , Timothy M. Hospedales

Distantly supervision automatically generates plenty of training samples for relation extraction. However, it also incurs two major problems: noisy labels and imbalanced training data. Previous works focus more on reducing wrongly labeled…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-05-24 Chenhao Xie , Jiaqing Liang , Jingping Liu , Chengsong Huang , Wenhao Huang , Yanghua Xiao

Manual annotation of the labeled data for relation extraction is time-consuming and labor-intensive. Semi-supervised methods can offer helping hands for this problem and have aroused great research interests. Existing work focuses on…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-10-23 Wanli Li , Tieyun Qian

In zero-shot multilingual extractive text summarization, a model is typically trained on English summarization dataset and then applied on summarization datasets of other languages. Given English gold summaries and documents, sentence-level…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-05-02 Ruipeng Jia , Xingxing Zhang , Yanan Cao , Shi Wang , Zheng Lin , Furu Wei

Relation extraction (RE) is an important task that aims to identify the relationships between entities in texts. While large language models (LLMs) have revealed remarkable in-context learning (ICL) capability for general zero and few-shot…

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

Extractive summarization and imbalanced multi-label classification often require vast amounts of training data to avoid overfitting. In situations where training data is expensive to generate, leveraging information between tasks is an…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-03-19 John Brandt

Large, high-quality annotated corpora remain scarce in document-level entity and relation extraction in zero-shot or few-shot settings. In this paper, we present a fully automatic, LLM-based pipeline for synthetic data generation and…

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Joint entity and relation extraction is a process that identifies entity pairs and their relations using a single model. We focus on the problem of joint extraction in distantly-labeled data, whose labels are generated by aligning entity…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-05-28 Yufei Li , Xiao Yu , Yanghong Guo , Yanchi Liu , Haifeng Chen , Cong Liu

Relation classification (RC) task is one of fundamental tasks of information extraction, aiming to detect the relation information between entity pairs in unstructured natural language text and generate structured data in the form of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-01-12 Yan Xiao , Yaochu Jin , Kuangrong Hao

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

Distant supervised relation extraction has been successfully applied to large corpus with thousands of relations. However, the inevitable wrong labeling problem by distant supervision will hurt the performance of relation extraction. In…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-11-15 Shanchan Wu , Kai Fan , Qiong Zhang

Sentence-level relation extraction mainly aims to classify the relation between two entities in a sentence. The sentence-level relation extraction corpus often contains data that are difficult for the model to infer or noise data. In this…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-08-05 Seongsik Park , Harksoo Kim

Distant supervision provides a means to create a large number of weakly labeled data at low cost for relation classification. However, the resulting labeled instances are very noisy, containing data with wrong labels. Many approaches have…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-10-27 Zhenzhen Li , Jian-Yun Nie , Benyou Wang , Pan Du , Yuhan Zhang , Lixin Zou , Dongsheng Li