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Extracting structured information from unstructured text is critical for many downstream NLP applications and is traditionally achieved by closed information extraction (cIE). However, existing approaches for cIE suffer from two…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-04-22 Nacime Bouziani , Shubhi Tyagi , Joseph Fisher , Jens Lehmann , Andrea Pierleoni

Systematic comparison of methods for relation extraction (RE) is difficult because many experiments in the field are not described precisely enough to be completely reproducible and many papers fail to report ablation studies that would…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-07-14 Geeticka Chauhan , Matthew B. A. McDermott , Peter Szolovits

Relation extraction from text is an important task for automatic knowledge base population. In this thesis, we first propose a syntax-focused multi-factor attention network model for finding the relation between two entities. Next, we…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-04-06 Tapas Nayak

Document-level relation extraction aims to extract relations among entities within a document. Different from sentence-level relation extraction, it requires reasoning over multiple sentences across a document. In this paper, we propose…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-09-30 Shuang Zeng , Runxin Xu , Baobao Chang , Lei Li

Document-level relation extraction (DocRE) is the task of identifying all relations between each entity pair in a document. Evidence, defined as sentences containing clues for the relationship between an entity pair, has been shown to help…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-02-20 Youmi Ma , An Wang , Naoaki Okazaki

Joint extraction of entities and relations aims to detect entity pairs along with their relations using a single model. Prior work typically solves this task in the extract-then-classify or unified labeling manner. However, these methods…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-02-20 Bowen Yu , Zhenyu Zhang , Xiaobo Shu , Yubin Wang , Tingwen Liu , Bin Wang , Sujian Li

Relation extraction (RE) aims to extract potential relations according to the context of two entities, thus, deriving rational contexts from sentences plays an important role. Previous works either focus on how to leverage the entity…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-05-08 Xuming Hu , Zhaochen Hong , Chenwei Zhang , Irwin King , Philip S. Yu

Cross-document Relation Extraction aims to predict the relation between target entities located in different documents. In this regard, the dominant models commonly retain useful information for relation prediction via bridge entities,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-06-25 Hao Yue , Shaopeng Lai , Chengyi Yang , Liang Zhang , Junfeng Yao , Jinsong Su

Document-Level Biomedical Relation Extraction (Bio-RE) aims to identify relations between biomedical entities within extensive texts, serving as a crucial subfield of biomedical text mining. Existing Bio-RE methods struggle with…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-01-10 Yufei Shang , Yanrong Guo , Shijie Hao , Richang Hong

Information Extraction (IE) is crucial for converting unstructured data into structured formats like Knowledge Graphs (KGs). A key task within IE is Relation Extraction (RE), which identifies relationships between entities in text. Various…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-06-25 Sefika Efeoglu , Adrian Paschke

Relation Extraction is an important task in Information Extraction which deals with identifying semantic relations between entity mentions. Traditionally, relation extraction is carried out after entity extraction in a "pipeline" fashion,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-03-11 Sachin Pawar , Pushpak Bhattacharyya , Girish K. Palshikar

Distantly supervised relation extraction has been widely used to find novel relational facts from plain text. To predict the relation between a pair of two target entities, existing methods solely rely on those direct sentences containing…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-09-15 Wenyuan Zeng , Yankai Lin , Zhiyuan Liu , Maosong Sun

Cross-document relation extraction (RE) aims to identify relations between the head and tail entities located in different documents. Existing approaches typically adopt the paradigm of ``\textit{Small Language Model (SLM) + Classifier}''.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Guoqi Ma , Liang Zhang , Hongyao Tu , Hao Fu , Hui Li , Yujie Lin , Longyue Wang , Weihua Luo , Jinsong Su

Document-level Relation Extraction (DocRE), which aims to extract relations from a long context, is a critical challenge in achieving fine-grained structural comprehension and generating interpretable document representations. Inspired by…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-11-14 Junpeng Li , Zixia Jia , Zilong Zheng

Continual relation extraction (RE) aims to learn constantly emerging relations while avoiding forgetting the learned relations. Existing works store a small number of typical samples to re-train the model for alleviating forgetting.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-05-12 Wenzheng Zhao , Yuanning Cui , Wei Hu

Recently, numerous efforts have continued to push up performance boundaries of document-level relation extraction (DocRE) and have claimed significant progress in DocRE. In this paper, we do not aim at proposing a novel model for DocRE.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-06-16 Jing Li , Yequan Wang , Shuai Zhang , Min Zhang

Document-level relation extraction (DocRE) predicts relations for entity pairs that rely on long-range context-dependent reasoning in a document. As a typical multi-label classification problem, DocRE faces the challenge of effectively…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-04-04 Jia Guo , Stanley Kok , Lidong Bing

Inter-sentence relation extraction deals with a number of complex semantic relationships in documents, which require local, non-local, syntactic and semantic dependencies. Existing methods do not fully exploit such dependencies. We present…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-06-12 Sunil Kumar Sahu , Fenia Christopoulou , Makoto Miwa , Sophia Ananiadou

The goal of open relation extraction (OpenRE) is to develop an RE model that can generalize to new relations not encountered during training. Existing studies primarily formulate OpenRE as a clustering task. They first cluster all test…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-09-19 Hongyao Tu , Liang Zhang , Yujie Lin , Xin Lin , Haibo Zhang , Long Zhang , Jinsong Su

Compared with traditional sentence-level relation extraction, document-level relation extraction is a more challenging task where an entity in a document may be mentioned multiple times and associated with multiple relations. However, most…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-05-31 Jiaxin Yu , Deqing Yang , Shuyu Tian