Abstract
Most existing joint neural models for Information Extraction (IE) use local task-specific classifiers to predict labels for individual instances (e.g., trigger, relation) regardless of their interactions. For example, a victim of a die event is likely to be a victim of an attack event in the same sentence. In order to capture such cross-subtask and cross-instance inter-dependencies, we propose a joint neural framework, OneIE, that aims to extract the globally optimal IE result as a graph from an input sentence. OneIE performs end-to-end IE in four stages: (1) Encoding a given sentence as contextualized word representations; (2) Identifying entity mentions and event triggers as nodes; (3) Computing label scores for all nodes and their pairwise links using local classifiers; (4) Searching for the globally optimal graph with a beam decoder. At the decoding stage, we incorporate global features to capture the cross-subtask and cross-instance interactions. Experiments show that adding global features improves the performance of our model and achieves new state of-the-art on all subtasks. In addition, as OneIE does not use any language-specific feature, we prove it can be easily applied to new languages or trained in a multilingual manner.- Anthology ID:
- 2020.acl-main.713
- Volume:
- Proceedings of the 58th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics
- Month:
- July
- Year:
- 2020
- Address:
- Online
- Editors:
- Dan Jurafsky, Joyce Chai, Natalie Schluter, Joel Tetreault
- Venue:
- ACL
- SIG:
- Publisher:
- Association for Computational Linguistics
- Note:
- Pages:
- 7999–8009
- Language:
- URL:
- https://aclanthology.org/2020.acl-main.713
- DOI:
- 10.18653/v1/2020.acl-main.713
- Cite (ACL):
- Ying Lin, Heng Ji, Fei Huang, and Lingfei Wu. 2020. A Joint Neural Model for Information Extraction with Global Features. In Proceedings of the 58th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, pages 7999–8009, Online. Association for Computational Linguistics.
- Cite (Informal):
- A Joint Neural Model for Information Extraction with Global Features (Lin et al., ACL 2020)
- PDF:
- https://preview.aclanthology.org/landing_page/2020.acl-main.713.pdf