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Distantly supervised models are very popular for relation extraction since we can obtain a large amount of training data using the distant supervision method without human annotation. In distant supervision, a sentence is considered as a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-08-24 Tapas Nayak , Navonil Majumder , Soujanya Poria

Relation extraction (RE) consists in categorizing the relationship between entities in a sentence. A recent paradigm to develop relation extractors is Distant Supervision (DS), which allows the automatic creation of new datasets by taking…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-10-20 Johny Moreira , Chaina Oliveira , David Macêdo , Cleber Zanchettin , Luciano Barbosa

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

Biomedical knowledge graphs (KGs) are vital for drug discovery and clinical decision support but remain incomplete. Large language models (LLMs) excel at extracting biomedical relations, yet their outputs lack standardization and alignment…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-12-01 Olawumi Olasunkanmi , Mathew Satusky , Hong Yi , Chris Bizon , Harlin Lee , Stanley Ahalt

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

Compared to the general news domain, information extraction (IE) from biomedical text requires much broader domain knowledge. However, many previous IE methods do not utilize any external knowledge during inference. Due to the exponential…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-06-02 Tuan Lai , Heng Ji , ChengXiang Zhai , Quan Hung Tran

Relation Extraction is an important sub-task of Information Extraction which has the potential of employing deep learning (DL) models with the creation of large datasets using distant supervision. In this review, we compare the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-05-11 Shantanu Kumar

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

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

Biomedical entity linking and event extraction are two crucial tasks to support text understanding and retrieval in the biomedical domain. These two tasks intrinsically benefit each other: entity linking disambiguates the biomedical…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-05-25 Xiaochu Li , Minqian Liu , Zhiyang Xu , Lifu Huang

Extracting entities and relations for types of interest from text is important for understanding massive text corpora. Traditionally, systems of entity relation extraction have relied on human-annotated corpora for training and adopted an…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-06-06 Xiang Ren , Zeqiu Wu , Wenqi He , Meng Qu , Clare R. Voss , Heng Ji , Tarek F. Abdelzaher , Jiawei Han

Clinical document metadata, such as document type, structure, author role, medical specialty, and encounter setting, is essential for accurate interpretation of information captured in clinical documents. However, vast documentation…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-01-16 Kurt Miller , Qiuhao Lu , William Hersh , Kirk Roberts , Steven Bedrick , Andrew Wen , Hongfang Liu

Document-level relation extraction faces two overlooked challenges: long-tail problem and multi-label problem. Previous work focuses mainly on obtaining better contextual representations for entity pairs, hardly address the above…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-12-21 Ridong Han , Tao Peng , Benyou Wang , Lu Liu , Xiang Wan

Automatic relationship extraction (RE) from biomedical literature is critical for managing the vast amount of scientific knowledge produced each year. In recent years, utilizing pre-trained language models (PLMs) has become the prevalent…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-11-04 Mario Sänger , Ulf Leser

With the advent of artificial intelligence (AI), many researchers are attempting to extract structured information from document-level biomedical literature by fine-tuning large language models (LLMs). However, they face significant…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2026-02-26 Lei Zhao , Ling Kang , Quan Guo

This paper presents an empirical study to build relation extraction systems in low-resource settings. Based upon recent pre-trained language models, we comprehensively investigate three schemes to evaluate the performance in low-resource…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-09-19 Xin Xu , Xiang Chen , Ningyu Zhang , Xin Xie , Xi Chen , Huajun Chen

Relation extraction is the task of determining the relation between two entities in a sentence. Distantly-supervised models are popular for this task. However, sentences can be long and two entities can be located far from each other in a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-12-10 Tapas Nayak , Hwee Tou Ng

In order to assist security analysts in obtaining information pertaining to their network, such as novel vulnerabilities, exploits, or patches, information retrieval methods tailored to the security domain are needed. As labeled text data…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2015-04-17 Corinne L. Jones , Robert A. Bridges , Kelly Huffer , John Goodall

Distant supervision is a widely applied approach to automatic training of relation extraction systems and has the advantage that it can generate large amounts of labelled data with minimal effort. However, this data may contain errors and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2015-09-15 Roland Roller , Eneko Agirre , Aitor Soroa , Mark Stevenson

Distant supervision (DS) is a well-established method for relation extraction from text, based on the assumption that when a knowledge-base contains a relation between a term pair, then sentences that contain that pair are likely to express…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-12-01 Anca Dumitrache , Lora Aroyo , Chris Welty