Abstract
Compared with traditional sentence-level relation extraction, document-level relation extraction is a more challenging task where an entity in a document may be mentioned multiple times and associated with multiple relations. However, most methods of document-level relation extraction do not distinguish between mention-level features and entity-level features, and just apply simple pooling operation for aggregating mention-level features into entity-level features. As a result, the distinct semantics between the different mentions of an entity are overlooked. To address this problem, we propose RSMAN in this paper which performs selective attentions over different entity mentions with respect to candidate relations. In this manner, the flexible and relation-specific representations of entities are obtained which indeed benefit relation classification. Our extensive experiments upon two benchmark datasets show that our RSMAN can bring significant improvements for some backbone models to achieve state-of-the-art performance, especially when an entity have multiple mentions in the document.- Anthology ID:
- 2022.naacl-main.109
- Volume:
- Proceedings of the 2022 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies
- Month:
- July
- Year:
- 2022
- Address:
- Seattle, United States
- Editors:
- Marine Carpuat, Marie-Catherine de Marneffe, Ivan Vladimir Meza Ruiz
- Venue:
- NAACL
- SIG:
- Publisher:
- Association for Computational Linguistics
- Note:
- Pages:
- 1523–1529
- Language:
- URL:
- https://aclanthology.org/2022.naacl-main.109
- DOI:
- 10.18653/v1/2022.naacl-main.109
- Cite (ACL):
- Jiaxin Yu, Deqing Yang, and Shuyu Tian. 2022. Relation-Specific Attentions over Entity Mentions for Enhanced Document-Level Relation Extraction. In Proceedings of the 2022 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies, pages 1523–1529, Seattle, United States. Association for Computational Linguistics.
- Cite (Informal):
- Relation-Specific Attentions over Entity Mentions for Enhanced Document-Level Relation Extraction (Yu et al., NAACL 2022)
- PDF:
- https://preview.aclanthology.org/nschneid-patch-4/2022.naacl-main.109.pdf
- Code
- fduyjx/rsman
- Data
- DWIE, DocRED