A Walk-based Model on Entity Graphs for Relation Extraction

Fenia Christopoulou, Makoto Miwa, Sophia Ananiadou


Abstract
We present a novel graph-based neural network model for relation extraction. Our model treats multiple pairs in a sentence simultaneously and considers interactions among them. All the entities in a sentence are placed as nodes in a fully-connected graph structure. The edges are represented with position-aware contexts around the entity pairs. In order to consider different relation paths between two entities, we construct up to l-length walks between each pair. The resulting walks are merged and iteratively used to update the edge representations into longer walks representations. We show that the model achieves performance comparable to the state-of-the-art systems on the ACE 2005 dataset without using any external tools.
Anthology ID:
P18-2014
Volume:
Proceedings of the 56th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 2: Short Papers)
Month:
July
Year:
2018
Address:
Melbourne, Australia
Editors:
Iryna Gurevych, Yusuke Miyao
Venue:
ACL
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Publisher:
Association for Computational Linguistics
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Pages:
81–88
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URL:
https://aclanthology.org/P18-2014
DOI:
10.18653/v1/P18-2014
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Cite (ACL):
Fenia Christopoulou, Makoto Miwa, and Sophia Ananiadou. 2018. A Walk-based Model on Entity Graphs for Relation Extraction. In Proceedings of the 56th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 2: Short Papers), pages 81–88, Melbourne, Australia. Association for Computational Linguistics.
Cite (Informal):
A Walk-based Model on Entity Graphs for Relation Extraction (Christopoulou et al., ACL 2018)
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https://preview.aclanthology.org/nschneid-patch-3/P18-2014.pdf
Poster:
 P18-2014.Poster.pdf
Code
 fenchri/walk-based-re
Data
ACE 2005