Joint Type Inference on Entities and Relations via Graph Convolutional Networks

We develop a new paradigm for the task of joint entity relation extraction. It first identifies entity spans, then performs a joint inference on entity types and relation types. To tackle the joint type inference task, we propose a novel graph convolutional network (GCN) running on an entity-relation bipartite graph. By introducing a binary relation classification task, we are able to utilize the structure of entity-relation bipartite graph in a more efficient and interpretable way. Experiments on ACE05 show that our model outperforms existing joint models in entity performance and is competitive with the state-of-the-art in relation performance.

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 Ranked #1 on Relation Extraction on ACE 2005 (Sentence Encoder metric)

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Task Dataset Model Metric Name Metric Value Global Rank Benchmark
Relation Extraction ACE 2005 GCN NER Micro F1 84.2 # 15
RE+ Micro F1 59.1 # 11
Sentence Encoder biLSTM # 1
Cross Sentence No # 1

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