Semi-automatic Data Enhancement for Document-Level Relation Extraction with Distant Supervision from Large Language Models

Junpeng Li, Zixia Jia, Zilong Zheng


Abstract
Document-level Relation Extraction (DocRE), which aims to extract relations from a long context, is a critical challenge in achieving fine-grained structural comprehension and generating interpretable document representations. Inspired by recent advances in in-context learning capabilities emergent from large language models (LLMs), such as ChatGPT, we aim to design an automated annotation method for DocRE with minimum human effort. Unfortunately, vanilla in-context learning is infeasible for DocRE due to the plenty of predefined fine-grained relation types and the uncontrolled generations of LLMs. To tackle this issue, we propose a method integrating an LLM and a natural language inference (NLI) module to generate relation triples, thereby augmenting document-level relation datasets. We demonstrate the effectiveness of our approach by introducing an enhanced dataset known as DocGNRE, which excels in re-annotating numerous long-tail relation types. We are confident that our method holds the potential for broader applications in domain-specific relation type definitions and offers tangible benefits in advancing generalized language semantic comprehension.
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2023.emnlp-main.334
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Proceedings of the 2023 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing
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December
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2023
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Singapore
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Houda Bouamor, Juan Pino, Kalika Bali
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EMNLP
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5495–5505
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10.18653/v1/2023.emnlp-main.334
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Junpeng Li, Zixia Jia, and Zilong Zheng. 2023. Semi-automatic Data Enhancement for Document-Level Relation Extraction with Distant Supervision from Large Language Models. In Proceedings of the 2023 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, pages 5495–5505, Singapore. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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Semi-automatic Data Enhancement for Document-Level Relation Extraction with Distant Supervision from Large Language Models (Li et al., EMNLP 2023)
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