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Relation extraction (RE) has been extensively studied due to its importance in real-world applications such as knowledge base construction and question answering. Most of the existing works train the models on either distantly supervised…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-11-25 Woohwan Jung , Kyuseok Shim

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

Relation extraction is a fundamental task in information extraction. Most existing methods have heavy reliance on annotations labeled by human experts, which are costly and time-consuming. To overcome this drawback, we propose a novel…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-08-03 Liyuan Liu , Xiang Ren , Qi Zhu , Shi Zhi , Huan Gui , Heng Ji , Jiawei Han

In relation extraction with distant supervision, noisy labels make it difficult to train quality models. Previous neural models addressed this problem using an attention mechanism that attends to sentences that are likely to express the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-04-09 Iz Beltagy , Kyle Lo , Waleed Ammar

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

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

Knowledge is a formal way of understanding the world, providing a human-level cognition and intelligence for the next-generation artificial intelligence (AI). One of the representations of knowledge is semantic relations between entities.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-02-09 Hailin Wang , Ke Qin , Rufai Yusuf Zakari , Guoming Lu , Jin Yin

Distant supervision (DS) is a promising approach for relation extraction but often suffers from the noisy label problem. Traditional DS methods usually represent an entity pair as a bag of sentences and denoise labels using multi-instance…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-12-10 Lingyong Yan , Xianpei Han , Le Sun , Fangchao Liu , Ning Bian

Relation Extraction (RE) is a task that identifies relationships between entities in a text, enabling the acquisition of relational facts and bridging the gap between natural language and structured knowledge. However, current RE models…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-06-21 Pere-Lluís Huguet Cabot , Simone Tedeschi , Axel-Cyrille Ngonga Ngomo , Roberto Navigli

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

Relation extraction is the problem of classifying the relationship between two entities in a given sentence. Distant Supervision (DS) is a popular technique for developing relation extractors starting with limited supervision. We note that…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-04-20 Sharmistha Jat , Siddhesh Khandelwal , Partha Talukdar

Distant supervision for relation extraction is an efficient method to reduce labor costs and has been widely used to seek novel relational facts in large corpora, which can be identified as a multi-instance multi-label problem. However,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-12-27 Changsen Yuan , Heyan Huang , Chong Feng , Xiao Liu , Xiaochi Wei

With an exponential explosive growth of various digital text information, it is challenging to efficiently obtain specific knowledge from massive unstructured text information. As one basic task for natural language processing (NLP),…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-03-27 Yan Xiao , Yaochu Jin , Ran Cheng , Kuangrong Hao

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

Distant supervision (DS) is a well established technique for creating large-scale datasets for relation extraction (RE) without using human annotations. However, research in DS-RE has been mostly limited to the English language.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-04-20 Abhyuday Bhartiya , Kartikeya Badola , Mausam

We study the problem of textual relation embedding with distant supervision. To combat the wrong labeling problem of distant supervision, we propose to embed textual relations with global statistics of relations, i.e., the co-occurrence…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-04-20 Yu Su , Honglei Liu , Semih Yavuz , Izzeddin Gur , Huan Sun , Xifeng Yan

In recent years, distantly-supervised relation extraction has achieved a certain success by using deep neural networks. Distant Supervision (DS) can automatically generate large-scale annotated data by aligning entity pairs from Knowledge…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-11-02 Tong Zhu , Haitao Wang , Junjie Yu , Xiabing Zhou , Wenliang Chen , Wei Zhang , Min Zhang

Relation extraction (RE) aims to identify the semantic relations between named entities in text. Recent years have witnessed it raised to the document level, which requires complex reasoning with entities and mentions throughout an entire…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-09-23 Difeng Wang , Wei Hu , Ermei Cao , Weijian Sun

Scarcity of labeled data is one of the most frequent problems faced in machine learning. This is particularly true in relation extraction in text mining, where large corpora of texts exists in many application domains, while labeling of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-07-13 Linara Adilova , Sven Giesselbach , Stefan Rüping

We introduce SpERT, an attention model for span-based joint entity and relation extraction. Our key contribution is a light-weight reasoning on BERT embeddings, which features entity recognition and filtering, as well as relation…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-06-30 Markus Eberts , Adrian Ulges