Thy Thy Tran


2020

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Revisiting Unsupervised Relation Extraction
Thy Thy Tran | Phong Le | Sophia Ananiadou
Proceedings of the 58th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics

Unsupervised relation extraction (URE) extracts relations between named entities from raw text without manually-labelled data and existing knowledge bases (KBs). URE methods can be categorised into generative and discriminative approaches, which rely either on hand-crafted features or surface form. However, we demonstrate that by using only named entities to induce relation types, we can outperform existing methods on two popular datasets. We conduct a comparison and evaluation of our findings with other URE techniques, to ascertain the important features in URE. We conclude that entity types provide a strong inductive bias for URE.