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Multi$^2$OIE: Multilingual Open Information Extraction Based on Multi-Head Attention with BERT

Computation and Language 2020-12-08 v2 Machine Learning

Abstract

In this paper, we propose Multi2^2OIE, which performs open information extraction (open IE) by combining BERT with multi-head attention. Our model is a sequence-labeling system with an efficient and effective argument extraction method. We use a query, key, and value setting inspired by the Multimodal Transformer to replace the previously used bidirectional long short-term memory architecture with multi-head attention. Multi2^2OIE outperforms existing sequence-labeling systems with high computational efficiency on two benchmark evaluation datasets, Re-OIE2016 and CaRB. Additionally, we apply the proposed method to multilingual open IE using multilingual BERT. Experimental results on new benchmark datasets introduced for two languages (Spanish and Portuguese) demonstrate that our model outperforms other multilingual systems without training data for the target languages.

Cite

@article{arxiv.2009.08128,
  title  = {Multi$^2$OIE: Multilingual Open Information Extraction Based on Multi-Head Attention with BERT},
  author = {Youngbin Ro and Yukyung Lee and Pilsung Kang},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2009.08128},
  year   = {2020}
}

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11 pages, Findings of EMNLP 2020

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