Huaming Liao


2022

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CofeNet: Context and Former-Label Enhanced Net for Complicated Quotation Extraction
Yequan Wang | Xiang Li | Aixin Sun | Xuying Meng | Huaming Liao | Jiafeng Guo
Proceedings of the 29th International Conference on Computational Linguistics

Quotation extraction aims to extract quotations from written text. There are three components in a quotation: source refers to the holder of the quotation, cue is the trigger word(s), and content is the main body. Existing solutions for quotation extraction mainly utilize rule-based approaches and sequence labeling models. While rule-based approaches often lead to low recalls, sequence labeling models cannot well handle quotations with complicated structures. In this paper, we propose the Context and Former-Label Enhanced Net () for quotation extraction. is able to extract complicated quotations with components of variable lengths and complicated structures. On two public datasets (and ) and one proprietary dataset (), we show that our achieves state-of-the-art performance on complicated quotation extraction.