Span-Level Model for Relation Extraction

ACL 2019  ·  Kalpit Dixit, Yaser Al-Onaizan ·

Relation Extraction is the task of identifying entity mention spans in raw text and then identifying relations between pairs of the entity mentions. Recent approaches for this span-level task have been token-level models which have inherent limitations. They cannot easily define and implement span-level features, cannot model overlapping entity mentions and have cascading errors due to the use of sequential decoding. To address these concerns, we present a model which directly models all possible spans and performs joint entity mention detection and relation extraction. We report a new state-of-the-art performance of 62.83 F1 (prev best was 60.49) on the ACE2005 dataset.

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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 Span-level NER Micro F1 85.98 # 12
Sentence Encoder ELMo # 1
Cross Sentence No # 1

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