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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

In natural language, often multiple entities appear in the same text. However, most previous works in Relation Extraction (RE) limit the scope to identifying the relation between two entities at a time. Such an approach induces a quadratic…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-10-13 Zhijing Jin , Yongyi Yang , Xipeng Qiu , Zheng Zhang

Relation extraction (RE) is an important information extraction task which provides essential information to many NLP applications such as knowledge base population and question answering. In this paper, we present a novel generative model…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-03-01 Jian Ni , Gaetano Rossiello , Alfio Gliozzo , Radu Florian

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

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

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

Relation Extraction (RE) is a fundamental task in Natural Language Processing, and its document-level variant poses significant challenges, due to complex interactions between entities across sentences. While supervised models have achieved…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-10-08 Robin Armingaud , Romaric Besançon

Few-shot relation extraction (FSRE) aims at recognizing unseen relations by learning with merely a handful of annotated instances. To generalize to new relations more effectively, this paper proposes a novel pipeline for the FSRE task based…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-11-09 Yuzhe Zhang , Min Cen , Tongzhou Wu , Hong Zhang

The goal of few-shot relation extraction is to predict relations between name entities in a sentence when only a few labeled instances are available for training. Existing few-shot relation extraction methods focus on uni-modal information…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-03-04 Jiaying Gong , Hoda Eldardiry

Extracting entity pairs along with relation types from unstructured texts is a fundamental subtask of information extraction. Most existing joint models rely on fine-grained labeling scheme or focus on shared embedding parameters. These…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-10-16 Bin-Bin Zhao , Liang Li , Hui-Dong Zhang

Analysing the generalisation capabilities of relation extraction (RE) models is crucial for assessing whether they learn robust relational patterns or rely on spurious correlations. Our cross-dataset experiments find that RE models struggle…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-12-16 Varvara Arzt , Allan Hanbury , Michael Wiegand , Gábor Recski , Terra Blevins

Despite the importance of relation extraction in building and representing knowledge, less research is focused on generalizing to unseen relations types. We introduce the task setting of Zero-Shot Relation Triplet Extraction (ZeroRTE) to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-03-18 Yew Ken Chia , Lidong Bing , Soujanya Poria , Luo Si

We present a Few-Shot Relation Classification Dataset (FewRel), consisting of 70, 000 sentences on 100 relations derived from Wikipedia and annotated by crowdworkers. The relation of each sentence is first recognized by distant supervision…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-10-30 Xu Han , Hao Zhu , Pengfei Yu , Ziyun Wang , Yuan Yao , Zhiyuan Liu , Maosong Sun

Relation extraction (RE) is one of the most important tasks in information extraction, as it provides essential information for many NLP applications. In this paper, we propose a cross-lingual RE approach that does not require any human…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-10-20 Jian Ni , Taesun Moon , Parul Awasthy , Radu Florian

Few-shot and zero-shot entity linking focus on the tail and emerging entities, which are more challenging but closer to real-world scenarios. The mainstream method is the ''retrieve and rerank'' two-stage framework. In this paper, we…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-08-15 Shijue Huang , Bingbing Wang , Libo Qin , Qin Zhao , Ruifeng Xu

Named Entity Recognition (NER) and Relation Classification (RC) are important steps in extracting information from unstructured text and formatting it into a machine-readable format. We present a survey of recent deep learning models that…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-03-28 Sakher Khalil Alqaaidi , Elika Bozorgi , Afsaneh Shams , Krzysztof Kochut

Tagging based relational triple extraction methods are attracting growing research attention recently. However, most of these methods take a unidirectional extraction framework that first extracts all subjects and then extracts objects and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-01-06 Feiliang Ren , Longhui Zhang , Xiaofeng Zhao , Shujuan Yin , Shilei Liu , Bochao Li

Few-shot relation extraction involves identifying the type of relationship between two specific entities within a text, using a limited number of annotated samples. A variety of solutions to this problem have emerged by applying…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-03-11 Xilai Ma , Jing Li , Min Zhang

Over the last five years, research on Relation Extraction (RE) witnessed extensive progress with many new dataset releases. At the same time, setup clarity has decreased, contributing to increased difficulty of reliable empirical evaluation…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-04-29 Elisa Bassignana , Barbara Plank

Scaling language models have revolutionized widespread NLP tasks, yet little comprehensively explored few-shot relation extraction with large language models. In this paper, we investigate principal methodologies, in-context learning and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-06-12 Xin Xu , Yuqi Zhu , Xiaohan Wang , Ningyu Zhang