@inproceedings{li-etal-2022-hierarchical,
title = "Hierarchical Relation-Guided Type-Sentence Alignment for Long-Tail Relation Extraction with Distant Supervision",
author = "Li, Yang and
Long, Guodong and
Shen, Tao and
Jiang, Jing",
editor = "Carpuat, Marine and
de Marneffe, Marie-Catherine and
Meza Ruiz, Ivan Vladimir",
booktitle = "Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: NAACL 2022",
month = jul,
year = "2022",
address = "Seattle, United States",
publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
url = "https://aclanthology.org/2022.findings-naacl.24/",
doi = "10.18653/v1/2022.findings-naacl.24",
pages = "316--326",
abstract = "Distant supervision uses triple facts in knowledge graphs to label a corpus for relation extraction, leading to wrong labeling and long-tail problems. Some works use the hierarchy of relations for knowledge transfer to long-tail relations. However, a coarse-grained relation often implies only an attribute (e.g., domain or topic) of the distant fact, making it hard to discriminate relations based solely on sentence semantics. One solution is resorting to entity types, but open questions remain about how to fully leverage the information of entity types and how to align multi-granular entity types with sentences. In this work, we propose a novel model to enrich distantly-supervised sentences with entity types. It consists of (1) a pairwise type-enriched sentence encoding module injecting both context-free and -related backgrounds to alleviate sentence-level wrong labeling, and (2) a hierarchical type-sentence alignment module enriching a sentence with the triple fact`s basic attributes to support long-tail relations. Our model achieves new state-of-the-art results in overall and long-tail performance on benchmarks."
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%0 Conference Proceedings
%T Hierarchical Relation-Guided Type-Sentence Alignment for Long-Tail Relation Extraction with Distant Supervision
%A Li, Yang
%A Long, Guodong
%A Shen, Tao
%A Jiang, Jing
%Y Carpuat, Marine
%Y de Marneffe, Marie-Catherine
%Y Meza Ruiz, Ivan Vladimir
%S Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: NAACL 2022
%D 2022
%8 July
%I Association for Computational Linguistics
%C Seattle, United States
%F li-etal-2022-hierarchical
%X Distant supervision uses triple facts in knowledge graphs to label a corpus for relation extraction, leading to wrong labeling and long-tail problems. Some works use the hierarchy of relations for knowledge transfer to long-tail relations. However, a coarse-grained relation often implies only an attribute (e.g., domain or topic) of the distant fact, making it hard to discriminate relations based solely on sentence semantics. One solution is resorting to entity types, but open questions remain about how to fully leverage the information of entity types and how to align multi-granular entity types with sentences. In this work, we propose a novel model to enrich distantly-supervised sentences with entity types. It consists of (1) a pairwise type-enriched sentence encoding module injecting both context-free and -related backgrounds to alleviate sentence-level wrong labeling, and (2) a hierarchical type-sentence alignment module enriching a sentence with the triple fact‘s basic attributes to support long-tail relations. Our model achieves new state-of-the-art results in overall and long-tail performance on benchmarks.
%R 10.18653/v1/2022.findings-naacl.24
%U https://aclanthology.org/2022.findings-naacl.24/
%U https://doi.org/10.18653/v1/2022.findings-naacl.24
%P 316-326
Markdown (Informal)
[Hierarchical Relation-Guided Type-Sentence Alignment for Long-Tail Relation Extraction with Distant Supervision](https://aclanthology.org/2022.findings-naacl.24/) (Li et al., Findings 2022)
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