Bernard Espinasse


2022

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DeepREF: A Framework for Optimized Deep Learning-based Relation Classification
Igor Nascimento | Rinaldo Lima | Adrian-Gabriel Chifu | Bernard Espinasse | Sébastien Fournier
Proceedings of the Thirteenth Language Resources and Evaluation Conference

The Relation Extraction (RE) is an important basic Natural Language Processing (NLP) for many applications, such as search engines, recommender systems, question-answering systems and others. There are many studies in this subarea of NLP that continue to be explored, such as SemEval campaigns (2010 to 2018), or DDI Extraction (2013).For more than ten years, different RE systems using mainly statistical models have been proposed as well as the frameworks to develop them. This paper focuses on frameworks allowing to develop such RE systems using deep learning models. Such frameworks should make it possible to reproduce experiments of various deep learning models and pre-processing techniques proposed in various publications. Currently, there are very few frameworks of this type, and we propose a new open and optimizable framework, called DeepREF, which is inspired by the OpenNRE and REflex existing frameworks. DeepREF allows the employment of various deep learning models, to optimize their use, to identify the best inputs and to get better results with each data set for RE and compare with other experiments, making ablation studies possible. The DeepREF Framework is evaluated on several reference corpora from various application domains.

2020

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DeepNLPF: A Framework for Integrating Third Party NLP Tools
Francisco Rodrigues | Rinaldo Lima | William Domingues | Robson Fidalgo | Adrian Chifu | Bernard Espinasse | Sébastien Fournier
Proceedings of the Twelfth Language Resources and Evaluation Conference

Natural Language Processing (NLP) of textual data is usually broken down into a sequence of several subtasks, where the output of one the subtasks becomes the input to the following one, which constitutes an NLP pipeline. Many third-party NLP tools are currently available, each performing distinct NLP subtasks. However, it is difficult to integrate several NLP toolkits into a pipeline due to many problems, including different input/output representations or formats, distinct programming languages, and tokenization issues. This paper presents DeepNLPF, a framework that enables easy integration of third-party NLP tools, allowing the user to preprocess natural language texts at lexical, syntactic, and semantic levels. The proposed framework also provides an API for complete pipeline customization including the definition of input/output formats, integration plugin management, transparent ultiprocessing execution strategies, corpus-level statistics, and database persistence. Furthermore, the DeepNLPF user-friendly GUI allows its use even by a non-expert NLP user. We conducted runtime performance analysis showing that DeepNLPF not only easily integrates existent NLP toolkits but also reduces significant runtime processing compared to executing the same NLP pipeline in a sequential manner.

2019

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The Impact of Semantic Linguistic Features in Relation Extraction: A Logical Relational Learning Approach
Rinaldo Lima | Bernard Espinasse | Frederico Freitas
Proceedings of the International Conference on Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing (RANLP 2019)

Relation Extraction (RE) consists in detecting and classifying semantic relations between entities in a sentence. The vast majority of the state-of-the-art RE systems relies on morphosyntactic features and supervised machine learning algorithms. This paper tries to answer important questions concerning both the impact of semantic based features, and the integration of external linguistic knowledge resources on RE performance. For that, a RE system based on a logical and relational learning algorithm was used and evaluated on three reference datasets from two distinct domains. The yielded results confirm that the classifiers induced using the proposed richer feature set outperformed the classifiers built with morphosyntactic features in average 4% (F1-measure).

2018

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Résumé automatique guidé de textes: État de l’art et perspectives (Guided Summarization : State-of-the-art and perspectives )
Salima Lamsiyah | Said Ouatik El Alaoui | Bernard Espinasse
Actes de la Conférence TALN. Volume 2 - Démonstrations, articles des Rencontres Jeunes Chercheurs, ateliers DeFT

Les systèmes de résumé automatique de textes (SRAT) consistent à produire une représentation condensée et pertinente à partir d’un ou de plusieurs documents textuels. La majorité des SRAT sont basés sur des approches extractives. La tendance actuelle consiste à s’orienter vers les approches abstractives. Dans ce contexte, le résumé guidé défini par la campagne d’évaluation internationale TAC (Text Analysis Conference) en 2010, vise à encourager la recherche sur ce type d’approche, en se basant sur des techniques d’analyse en profondeur de textes. Dans ce papier, nous nous penchons sur le résumé automatique guidé de textes. Dans un premier temps, nous définissons les différentes caractéristiques et contraintes liées à cette tâche. Ensuite, nous dressons un état de l’art des principaux systèmes existants en mettant l’accent sur les travaux les plus récents, et en les classifiant selon les approches adoptées, les techniques utilisées, et leurs évaluations sur des corpus de références. Enfin, nous proposons les grandes étapes d’une méthode spécifique devant permettre le développement d’un nouveau type de systèmes de résumé guidé.