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Past work in relation extraction has focused on binary relations in single sentences. Recent NLP inroads in high-value domains have sparked interest in the more general setting of extracting n-ary relations that span multiple sentences. In…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-08-15 Nanyun Peng , Hoifung Poon , Chris Quirk , Kristina Toutanova , Wen-tau Yih

Two key obstacles in biomedical relation extraction (RE) are the scarcity of annotations and the prevalence of instances without explicitly pre-defined labels due to low annotation coverage. Existing approaches, which treat biomedical RE as…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-20 Jiashu Xu , Mingyu Derek Ma , Muhao Chen

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

Relation extraction (RE) aims to extract the relations between entity names from the textual context. In principle, textual context determines the ground-truth relation and the RE models should be able to correctly identify the relations…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-05-08 Yiwei Wang , Bryan Hooi , Fei Wang , Yujun Cai , Yuxuan Liang , Wenxuan Zhou , Jing Tang , Manjuan Duan , Muhao Chen

The existing supervised relation extraction methods have achieved impressive performance in a closed-set setting, where the relations during both training and testing remain the same. In a more realistic open-set setting, unknown relations…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-06-09 Jun Zhao , Xin Zhao , Wenyu Zhan , Qi Zhang , Tao Gui , Zhongyu Wei , Yunwen Chen , Xiang Gao , Xuanjing Huang

Recent relation extraction (RE) works have shown encouraging improvements by conducting contrastive learning on silver labels generated by distant supervision before fine-tuning on gold labels. Existing methods typically assume all these…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-10-24 William Hogan , Jiacheng Li , Jingbo Shang

Document-level relation extraction (DocRE) aims to identify semantic labels among entities within a single document. One major challenge of DocRE is to dig decisive details regarding a specific entity pair from long text. However, in many…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-02-14 Zhichao Duan , Xiuxing Li , Zhenyu Li , Zhuo Wang , Jianyong Wang

Multi-task learning (MTL) is an effective method for learning related tasks, but designing MTL models necessitates deciding which and how many parameters should be task-specific, as opposed to shared between tasks. We investigate this issue…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-02-18 Phil Crone

Automatic Term Extraction (ATE) is a critical component in downstream NLP tasks such as document tagging, ontology construction and patent analysis. Current state-of-the-art methods require expensive human annotation and struggle with…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-10-09 Elena Senger , Yuri Campbell , Rob van der Goot , Barbara Plank

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

Current research in form understanding predominantly relies on large pre-trained language models, necessitating extensive data for pre-training. However, the importance of layout structure (i.e., the spatial relationship between the entity…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-06-05 Pritika Ramu , Sijia Wang , Lalla Mouatadid , Joy Rimchala , Lifu Huang

Sentence-level relation extraction mainly aims to classify the relation between two entities in a sentence. The sentence-level relation extraction corpus often contains data that are difficult for the model to infer or noise data. In this…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-08-05 Seongsik Park , Harksoo Kim

Relation extraction aims to extract relational facts from sentences. Previous models mainly rely on manually labeled datasets, seed instances or human-crafted patterns, and distant supervision. However, the human annotation is expensive,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-08-23 Ningyu Zhang , Shumin Deng , Zhanlin Sun , Jiaoyan Chen , Wei Zhang , Huajun Chen

A number of datasets for Relation Extraction (RE) have been created to aide downstream tasks such as information retrieval, semantic search, question answering and textual entailment. However, these datasets fail to capture financial-domain…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-05-31 Simerjot Kaur , Charese Smiley , Akshat Gupta , Joy Sain , Dongsheng Wang , Suchetha Siddagangappa , Toyin Aguda , Sameena Shah

Distantly-supervised Relation Extraction (RE) methods train an extractor by automatically aligning relation instances in a Knowledge Base (KB) with unstructured text. In addition to relation instances, KBs often contain other relevant side…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-02-13 Shikhar Vashishth , Rishabh Joshi , Sai Suman Prayaga , Chiranjib Bhattacharyya , Partha Talukdar

Recent work has shown that NLP tasks such as Relation Extraction (RE) can be recasted as Textual Entailment tasks using verbalizations, with strong performance in zero-shot and few-shot settings thanks to pre-trained entailment models. The…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-05-04 Oscar Sainz , Itziar Gonzalez-Dios , Oier Lopez de Lacalle , Bonan Min , Eneko Agirre

Low-resource Relation Extraction (LRE) aims to extract relation facts from limited labeled corpora when human annotation is scarce. Existing works either utilize self-training scheme to generate pseudo labels that will cause the gradual…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-09-15 Xuming Hu , Chenwei Zhang , Yawen Yang , Xiaohe Li , Li Lin , Lijie Wen , Philip S. Yu

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

Relation extraction (RE) consists in identifying and structuring automatically relations of interest from texts. Recently, BERT improved the top performances for several NLP tasks, including RE. However, the best way to use BERT, within a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-11-26 Walid Hafiane , Joel Legrand , Yannick Toussaint , Adrien Coulet

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