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Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-09-10 Zeyu Li , Wei Cheng , Reema Kshetramade , John Houser , Haifeng Chen , Wei Wang

The growing demand for structured knowledge has led to great interest in relation extraction, especially in cases with limited supervision. However, existing distance supervision approaches only extract relations expressed in single…

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BERT is inefficient for sentence-pair tasks such as clustering or semantic search as it needs to evaluate combinatorially many sentence pairs which is very time-consuming. Sentence BERT (SBERT) attempted to solve this challenge by learning…

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Open Relation Extraction (OpenRE) seeks to identify and extract novel relational facts between named entities from unlabeled data without pre-defined relation schemas. Traditional OpenRE methods typically assume that the unlabeled data…

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Distant supervision for relation extraction is an efficient method to reduce labor costs and has been widely used to seek novel relational facts in large corpora, which can be identified as a multi-instance multi-label problem. However,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-12-27 Changsen Yuan , Heyan Huang , Chong Feng , Xiao Liu , Xiaochi Wei

Learning sentence embeddings in an unsupervised manner is fundamental in natural language processing. Recent common practice is to couple pre-trained language models with unsupervised contrastive learning, whose success relies on augmenting…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-10-20 Qiyu Wu , Chongyang Tao , Tao Shen , Can Xu , Xiubo Geng , Daxin Jiang

Although pre-trained language models show good performance on various natural language processing tasks, they often rely on non-causal features and patterns to determine the outcome. For natural language inference tasks, previous results…

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Learning high-quality dialogue representations is essential for solving a variety of dialogue-oriented tasks, especially considering that dialogue systems often suffer from data scarcity. In this paper, we introduce Dialogue Sentence…

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While contrastive learning greatly advances the representation of sentence embeddings, it is still limited by the size of the existing sentence datasets. In this paper, we present TransAug (Translate as Augmentation), which provide the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-06-04 Jue Wang

More tasks in Machine Reading Comprehension(MRC) require, in addition to answer prediction, the extraction of evidence sentences that support the answer. However, the annotation of supporting evidence sentences is usually time-consuming and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-10-25 Suzhe He , Shumin Shi , Chenghao Wu

Relation Extraction (RE) aims at recognizing the relation between pairs of entities mentioned in a text. Advances in LLMs have had a tremendous impact on NLP. In this work, we propose a textual data augmentation framework called PGA for…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-06-03 Yang Zhou , Shimin Shan , Hongkui Wei , Zhehuan Zhao , Wenshuo Feng

Continual relation extraction (CRE) aims to extract relations towards the continuous and iterative arrival of new data, of which the major challenge is the catastrophic forgetting of old tasks. In order to alleviate this critical problem…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-10-11 Chengwei Hu , Deqing Yang , Haoliang Jin , Zhen Chen , Yanghua Xiao

Contrastive learning has recently achieved compelling performance in unsupervised sentence representation. As an essential element, data augmentation protocols, however, have not been well explored. The pioneering work SimCSE resorting to a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-06-17 Dongsheng Zhu , Zhenyu Mao , Jinghui Lu , Rui Zhao , Fei Tan

Sentence-level relation extraction aims to identify the relation between two entities for a given sentence. The existing works mostly focus on obtaining a better entity representation and adopting a multi-label classifier for relation…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-04-12 Jiewen Zheng , Ze Chen

Large language models (LLMs) struggle in knowledge-intensive tasks, as retrievers often overfit to surface similarity and fail on queries involving complex logical relations. The capacity for logical analysis is inherent in model…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Wenxuan Zhang , Yuan-Hao Jiang , Changyong Qi , Rui Jia , Yonghe Wu

Aspect Sentiment Triplet Extraction (ASTE) aims to extract triplets from a sentence, including target entities, associated sentiment polarities, and opinion spans which rationalize the polarities. Existing methods are short on building…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-11-02 Lianzhe Huang , Peiyi Wang , Sujian Li , Tianyu Liu , Xiaodong Zhang , Zhicong Cheng , Dawei Yin , Houfeng Wang

Document-level relation extraction (Doc-RE) aims to extract relations between entities across multiple sentences. Therefore, Doc-RE requires more comprehensive reasoning abilities like humans, involving complex cross-sentence interactions…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-08-05 Chengcheng Mai , Yuxiang Wang , Ziyu Gong , Hanxiang Wang , Yihua Huang

Distant supervision assumes that any sentence containing the same entity pairs reflects identical relationships. Previous works of distantly supervised relation extraction (DSRE) task generally focus on sentence-level or bag-level…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-03-03 Dongyang Li , Taolin Zhang , Nan Hu , Chengyu Wang , Xiaofeng He

Distant supervised relation extraction has been successfully applied to large corpus with thousands of relations. However, the inevitable wrong labeling problem by distant supervision will hurt the performance of relation extraction. In…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-11-15 Shanchan Wu , Kai Fan , Qiong Zhang

Document-level relation extraction (DocRE) is an active area of research in natural language processing (NLP) concerned with identifying and extracting relationships between entities beyond sentence boundaries. Compared to the more…