Improving Relation Extraction by Pre-trained Language Representations

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Christoph Alt, Marc Hübner, Leonhard Hennig

In: Proceedings of AKBC 2019. Automated Knowledge Base Construction (AKBC-2019) May 20-22 Amherst Massachusetts United States Seiten 1-18 OpenReview 2019.

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Current state-of-the-art relation extraction methods typically rely on a set of lexical, syntactic, and semantic features, explicitly computed in a pre-processing step. Training feature extraction models requires additional annotated language resources, which severely restricts the applicability and portability of relation extraction to novel languages. Similarly, pre-processing introduces an additional source of error. To address these limitations, we introduce TRE, a Transformer for Relation Extraction, extending the OpenAI Generative Pre-trained Transformer [Radford et al., 2018]. Unlike previous relation extraction models, TRE uses pre-trained deep language representations instead of explicit linguistic features to inform the relation classification and combines it with the self-attentive Transformer architecture to effectively model long-range dependencies between entity mentions. TRE allows us to learn implicit linguistic features solely from plain text corpora by unsupervised pre-training, before fine-tuning the learned language representations on the relation extraction task. TRE obtains a new state-of-the-art result on the TACRED and SemEval 2010 Task 8 datasets, achieving a test F1 of 67.4 and 87.1, respectively. Furthermore, we observe a significant increase in sample efficiency. With only 20% of the training exam- ples, TRE matches the performance of our baselines and our model trained from scratch on 100% of the TACRED dataset. We open-source our trained models, experiments, and source code.

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Daystream - Data Analytics and AI for Secure, Trusted, and Reliable Mobility (Datenanalytik und KI für sichere und zuverlässige Mobilität),
DEEPLEE - Tiefes Lernen für End-to-End-Anwendungen in der Sprachtechnologie,
BBDCII - Berlin Big Data Center

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