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Recent neural models for relation extraction with distant supervision alleviate the impact of irrelevant sentences in a bag by learning importance weights for the sentences. Efforts thus far have focused on improving extraction accuracy but…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2020-06-01 Hamed Shahbazi , Xiaoli Z. Fern , Reza Ghaeini , Prasad Tadepalli

Document-level relation extraction (DocRE) aims to infer complex semantic relations among entities in a document. Distant supervision (DS) is able to generate massive auto-labeled data, which can improve DocRE performance. Recent works…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-05-29 Qi Sun , Kun Huang , Xiaocui Yang , Pengfei Hong , Kun Zhang , Soujanya Poria

RST-style discourse parsing plays a vital role in many NLP tasks, revealing the underlying semantic/pragmatic structure of potentially complex and diverse documents. Despite its importance, one of the most prevailing limitations in modern…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-12-14 Patrick Huber , Linzi Xing , Giuseppe Carenini

Fact triples are a common form of structured knowledge used within the biomedical domain. As the amount of unstructured scientific texts continues to grow, manual annotation of these texts for the task of relation extraction becomes…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-05-27 Saadullah Amin , Katherine Ann Dunfield , Anna Vechkaeva , Günter Neumann

Distant supervision makes it possible to automatically label bags of sentences for relation extraction by leveraging knowledge bases, but suffers from the sparse and noisy bag issues. Additional information sources are urgently needed to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-12-18 Zhendong Chu , Haiyun Jiang , Yanghua Xiao , Wei Wang

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

Distant supervision can effectively label data for relation extraction, but suffers from the noise labeling problem. Recent works mainly perform soft bag-level noise reduction strategies to find the relatively better samples in a sentence…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-05-28 Pengda Qin , Weiran Xu , William Yang Wang

Distant supervision significantly reduces human efforts in building training data for many classification tasks. While promising, this technique often introduces noise to the generated training data, which can severely affect the model…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-05-16 Bingfeng Luo , Yansong Feng , Zheng Wang , Zhanxing Zhu , Songfang Huang , Rui Yan , Dongyan Zhao

Distant supervision assumes that any sentence containing the same entity pairs reflects identical relationships. Previous works of distantly supervised relation extraction (DSRE) task generally focus on sentence-level or bag-level…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-03-03 Dongyang Li , Taolin Zhang , Nan Hu , Chengyu Wang , Xiaofeng He

In this paper we address a task of relation mention extraction from noisy data: extracting representative phrases for a particular relation from noisy sentences that are collected via distant supervision. Despite its significance and value…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-11-06 Jun Feng , Minlie Huang , Yijie Zhang , Yang Yang , Xiaoyan Zhu

In the Query Focused Multi-Document Summarization (QF-MDS) task, a set of documents and a query are given where the goal is to generate a summary from these documents based on the given query. However, one major challenge for this task is…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-11-04 Md Tahmid Rahman Laskar , Enamul Hoque , Jimmy Xiangji Huang

Distant Supervision for Relation Extraction uses heuristically aligned text data with an existing knowledge base as training data. The unsupervised nature of this technique allows it to scale to web-scale relation extraction tasks, at the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-10-30 Tushar Nagarajan , Sharmistha , Partha Talukdar

Due to the large amount of textual information available on Internet, it is of paramount relevance to use techniques that find relevant and concise content. A typical task devoted to the identification of informative sentences in documents…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-03-23 Jorge V. Tohalino , Diego R. Amancio

Existing neural relation extraction (NRE) models rely on distant supervision and suffer from wrong labeling problems. In this paper, we propose a novel adversarial training mechanism over instances for relation extraction to alleviate the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-05-29 Xu Han , Zhiyuan Liu , Maosong Sun

Text Mining is a field that aims at extracting information from textual data. One of the challenges of such field of study comes from the pre-processing stage in which a vector (and structured) representation should be extracted from…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2018-01-16 Charles Henrique Porto Ferreira , Debora Maria Rossi de Medeiros , Fabricio Olivetti de França

Recent years have seen rapid development in Information Extraction, as well as its subtask, Relation Extraction. Relation Extraction is able to detect semantic relations between entities in sentences. Currently, many efficient approaches…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-03-19 Zhuang Li

We study the problem of training named entity recognition (NER) models using only distantly-labeled data, which can be automatically obtained by matching entity mentions in the raw text with entity types in a knowledge base. The biggest…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-09-13 Yu Meng , Yunyi Zhang , Jiaxin Huang , Xuan Wang , Yu Zhang , Heng Ji , Jiawei Han

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

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

We propose a framework to improve performance of distantly-supervised relation extraction, by jointly learning to solve two related tasks: concept-instance extraction and relation extraction. We combine this with a novel use of document…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2016-08-12 Lidong Bing , Bhuwan Dhingra , Kathryn Mazaitis , Jong Hyuk Park , William W. Cohen