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Dialogue relation extraction (RE) is to predict the relation type of two entities mentioned in a dialogue. In this paper, we propose a simple yet effective model named SimpleRE for the RE task. SimpleRE captures the interrelations among…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-04-26 Fuzhao Xue , Aixin Sun , Hao Zhang , Jinjie Ni , Eng Siong Chng

Collective entity disambiguation aims to jointly resolve multiple mentions by linking them to their associated entities in a knowledge base. Previous works are primarily based on the underlying assumption that entities within the same…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2018-07-17 Minh C. Phan , Aixin Sun , Yi Tay , Jialong Han , Chenliang Li

Temporal relation classification is the task of determining the temporal relation between pairs of temporal entities in a text. Despite recent advancements in natural language processing, temporal relation classification remains a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-28 Hugo Sousa , Ricardo Campos , Alípio Jorge

Document-level Relation Extraction (DocRE) involves identifying relations between entities across multiple sentences in a document. Evidence sentences, crucial for precise entity pair relationships identification, enhance focus on essential…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-04-10 Khai Phan Tran , Xue Li

Many tasks in natural language processing require the extraction of relationship information for a given condition, such as event argument extraction, relation extraction, and task-oriented semantic parsing. Recent works usually propose…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-05-29 I-Hung Hsu , Kuan-Hao Huang , Shuning Zhang , Wenxin Cheng , Premkumar Natarajan , Kai-Wei Chang , Nanyun Peng

Event classification at sentence level is an important Information Extraction task with applications in several NLP, IR, and personalization systems. Multi-label binary relevance (BR) are the state-of-art methods. In this work, we explored…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2014-03-26 Luís Marujo , Anatole Gershman , Jaime Carbonell , João P. Neto , David Martins de Matos

Temporal information has been the focus of recent attention in information extraction, leading to some standardization effort, in particular for the task of relating events in a text. This task raises the problem of comparing two…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2014-01-17 Xavier Tannier , Philippe Muller

In this paper, we seek to improve the faithfulness of TempRel extraction models from two perspectives. The first perspective is to extract genuinely based on contextual description. To achieve this, we propose to conduct counterfactual…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-10-13 Haoyu Wang , Hongming Zhang , Yuqian Deng , Jacob R. Gardner , Dan Roth , Muhao Chen

Multi-modal named entity recognition (NER) and relation extraction (RE) aim to leverage relevant image information to improve the performance of NER and RE. Most existing efforts largely focused on directly extracting potentially useful…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-12-06 Xinyu Wang , Jiong Cai , Yong Jiang , Pengjun Xie , Kewei Tu , Wei Lu

Multimodal named entity recognition (MNER) and multimodal relation extraction (MRE) are two fundamental subtasks in the multimodal knowledge graph construction task. However, the existing methods usually handle two tasks independently,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-02-21 Li Yuan , Yi Cai , Jin Wang , Qing Li

Causality understanding between events is a critical natural language processing task that is helpful in many areas, including health care, business risk management and finance. On close examination, one can find a huge amount of textual…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-02-01 Vivek Khetan , Roshni Ramnani , Mayuresh Anand , Shubhashis Sengupta , Andrew E. Fano

Document-level relation extraction (DocRE) poses the challenge of identifying relationships between entities within a document as opposed to the traditional RE setting where a single sentence is input. Existing approaches rely on logical…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-01-23 Monika Jain , Raghava Mutharaju , Ramakanth Kavuluru , Kuldeep Singh

Document-level relation extraction (DocRE) involves identifying relations between entities distributed in multiple sentences within a document. Existing methods focus on building a heterogeneous document graph to model the internal…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-31 Chonggang Lu , Richong Zhang , Kai Sun , Jaein Kim , Cunwang Zhang , Yongyi Mao

Document-level Relation Extraction (DRE) aims to recognize the relations between two entities. The entity may correspond to multiple mentions that span beyond sentence boundary. Few previous studies have investigated the mention…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-01-14 Chao Zhao , Daojian Zeng , Lu Xu , Jianhua Dai

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

This paper aims to enhance the few-shot relation classification especially for sentences that jointly describe multiple relations. Due to the fact that some relations usually keep high co-occurrence in the same context, previous few-shot…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-10-22 Yingyao Wang , Junwei Bao , Guangyi Liu , Youzheng Wu , Xiaodong He , Bowen Zhou , Tiejun Zhao

Natural language understanding's relation extraction makes innovative and encouraging novel business concepts possible and facilitates new digitilized decision-making processes. Current approaches allow the extraction of relations with a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-11-18 Lars Klöser , Philipp Kohl , Bodo Kraft , Albert Zündorf

Recent technological advances have made it easier to collect large and complex networks of time-stamped relational events connecting two or more entities. Relational hyper-event models (RHEMs) aim to explain the dynamics of these events by…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-12-02 Martina Boschi , Jürgen Lerner , Ernst C. Wit

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

Events and entities are closely related; entities are often actors or participants in events and events without entities are uncommon. The interpretation of events and entities is highly contextually dependent. Existing work in information…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2016-09-14 Bishan Yang , Tom Mitchell