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Relation extraction (RE) is the task of extracting relations between entities in text. Most RE methods extract relations from free-form running text and leave out other rich data sources, such as tables. We explore RE from the perspective…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-07-13 Arif Shahriar , Rohan Saha , Denilson Barbosa

Relation extraction is a crucial task in natural language processing, with broad applications in knowledge graph construction and literary analysis. However, the complex context and implicit expressions in novel texts pose significant…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-07-08 Yuchen Yan , Hanjie Zhao , Senbin Zhu , Hongde Liu , Zhihong Zhang , Yuxiang Jia

Document-level Relation Extraction (DRE) aims to recognize the relations between two entities. The entity may correspond to multiple mentions that span beyond sentence boundary. Few previous studies have investigated the mention…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-01-14 Chao Zhao , Daojian Zeng , Lu Xu , Jianhua Dai

Relation extraction (RE) aims at extracting the relation between two entities from the text corpora. It is a crucial task for Knowledge Graph (KG) construction. Most existing methods predict the relation between an entity pair by learning…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-11-30 Jun Kuang , Yixin Cao , Jianbing Zheng , Xiangnan He , Ming Gao , Aoying Zhou

Dialogue-based relation extraction (DiaRE) aims to detect the structural information from unstructured utterances in dialogues. Existing relation extraction models may be unsatisfactory under such a conversational setting, due to the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-11-02 Guoshun Nan , Guoqing Luo , Sicong Leng , Yao Xiao , Wei Lu

Extracting biomedical relations from large corpora of scientific documents is a challenging natural language processing task. Existing approaches usually focus on identifying a relation either in a single sentence (mention-level) or across…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-11-23 Harshil Shah , Julien Fauqueur

Dialogue relation extraction (DRE) aims to detect the relation between two entities mentioned in a multi-party dialogue. It plays an important role in constructing knowledge graphs from conversational data increasingly abundant on the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-06-22 Hui Chen , Pengfei Hong , Wei Han , Navonil Majumder , Soujanya Poria

Most deep neural networks are considered to be black boxes, meaning their output is hard to interpret. In contrast, logical expressions are considered to be more comprehensible since they use symbols that are semantically close to natural…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-12-16 Sophie Burkhardt , Jannis Brugger , Nicolas Wagner , Zahra Ahmadi , Kristian Kersting , Stefan Kramer

Motivated by the interpretability question in ML models as a crucial element for the successful deployment of AI systems, this paper focuses on rule extraction as a means for neural networks interpretability. Through a systematic literature…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-12-21 Sara El Mekkaoui , Loubna Benabbou , Abdelaziz Berrado

Recommendation systems aim to provide users with relevant suggestions, but often lack interpretability and fail to capture higher-level semantic relationships between user behaviors and profiles. In this paper, we propose a novel approach…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-01-26 Yan Wang , Zhixuan Chu , Xin Ouyang , Simeng Wang , Hongyan Hao , Yue Shen , Jinjie Gu , Siqiao Xue , James Y Zhang , Qing Cui , Longfei Li , Jun Zhou , Sheng Li

The field of statistical relational learning aims at unifying logic and probability to reason and learn from data. Perhaps the most successful paradigm in the field is probabilistic logic programming: the enabling of stochastic primitives…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-09-20 Stefanie Speichert , Vaishak Belle

Document-level Relation Extraction (DocRE) is the task of extracting all semantic relationships from a document. While studies have been conducted on English DocRE, limited attention has been given to DocRE in non-English languages. This…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-04-26 Youmi Ma , An Wang , Naoaki Okazaki

Discovering precise and interpretable rules from knowledge graphs is regarded as an essential challenge, which can improve the performances of many downstream tasks and even provide new ways to approach some Natural Language Processing…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-06-14 Canlin Zhang , Chun-Nan Hsu , Yannis Katsis , Ho-Cheol Kim , Yoshiki Vazquez-Baeza

Document Understanding is a foundational AI capability with broad applications, and Document Question Answering (DocQA) is a key evaluation task. Traditional methods convert the document into text for processing by Large Language Models…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-09-10 Xixi Wu , Yanchao Tan , Nan Hou , Ruiyang Zhang , Hong Cheng

Despite significant progress, large language models (LLMs) still struggle with long contexts due to memory limitations and their inability to tackle complex and long-context tasks. Additionally, LLMs often suffer from a lack of transparency…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-08-29 Zhirui Chen , Wei Shen , Jiashui Huang , Ling Shao

Reading comprehension models answer questions posed in natural language when provided with a short passage of text. They present an opportunity to address a long-standing challenge in data management: the extraction of structured data from…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-08-20 Qiming Wang , Raul Castro Fernandez

Most information extraction methods focus on binary relations expressed within single sentences. In high-value domains, however, $n$-ary relations are of great demand (e.g., drug-gene-mutation interactions in precision oncology). Such…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-06-28 Robin Jia , Cliff Wong , Hoifung Poon

Entity relation extraction consists of two sub-tasks: entity recognition and relation extraction. Existing methods either tackle these two tasks separately or unify them with word-by-word interactions. In this paper, we propose HIORE, a new…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-05-09 Yijun Wang , Changzhi Sun , Yuanbin Wu , Lei Li , Junchi Yan , Hao Zhou

Document-level relation extraction (RE) aims to identify the relations between entities throughout an entire document. It needs complex reasoning skills to synthesize various knowledge such as coreferences and commonsense. Large-scale…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-07-26 Xinyi Wang , Zitao Wang , Weijian Sun , Wei Hu

Rule-based models, e.g., decision trees, are widely used in scenarios demanding high model interpretability for their transparent inner structures and good model expressivity. However, rule-based models are hard to optimize, especially on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-01-31 Zhuo Wang , Wei Zhang , Ning Liu , Jianyong Wang