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Zero-Shot Relation Extraction via Reading Comprehension

2017/06/13 by Omer Levy, Minjoon Seo, Levy, Omer +5 · 67 citations
Computer Science · #Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI) #Computation and Language (cs.CL) #FOS: Computer and information sciences #Machine Learning (cs.LG) #cs.AI #cs.CL #cs.LG

paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1706.04115

CoNLL 2017

arxiv created 2017/06/13 · arxiv updated 2017/06/14

Abstract

We show that relation extraction can be reduced to answering simple reading comprehension questions, by associating one or more natural-language questions with each relation slot. This reduction has several advantages: we can (1) learn relation-extraction models by extending recent neural reading-comprehension techniques, (2) build very large training sets for those models by combining relation-specific crowd-sourced questions with distant supervision, and even (3) do zero-shot learning by extracting new relation types that are only specified at test-time, for which we have no labeled training examples. Experiments on a Wikipedia slot-filling task demonstrate that the approach can generalize to new questions for known relation types with high accuracy, and that zero-shot generalization to unseen relation types is possible, at lower accuracy levels, setting the bar for future work on this task.

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