A Gold Standard for Relation Extraction in the Food Domain

Michael Wiegand, Benjamin Roth, Eva Lasarcyk, Stephanie Köser, Dietrich Klakow

Abstract
We present a gold standard for semantic relation extraction in the food domain for German. The relation types that we address are motivated by scenarios for which IT applications present a commercial potential, such as virtual customer advice in which a virtual agent assists a customer in a supermarket in finding those products that satisfy their needs best. Moreover, we focus on those relation types that can be extracted from natural language text corpora, ideally content from the internet, such as web forums, that are easy to retrieve. A typical relation type that meets these requirements are pairs of food items that are usually consumed together. Such a relation type could be used by a virtual agent to suggest additional products available in a shop that would potentially complement the items a customer has already in their shopping cart. Our gold standard comprises structural data, i.e. relation tables, which encode relation instances. These tables are vital in order to evaluate natural language processing systems that extract those relations.
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L12-1018
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Proceedings of the Eighth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC'12)
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May
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2012
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Istanbul, Turkey
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Nicoletta Calzolari, Khalid Choukri, Thierry Declerck, Mehmet Uğur Doğan, Bente Maegaard, Joseph Mariani, Asuncion Moreno, Jan Odijk, Stelios Piperidis
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LREC
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European Language Resources Association (ELRA)
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507–514
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http://www.lrec-conf.org/proceedings/lrec2012/pdf/136_Paper.pdf
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Michael Wiegand, Benjamin Roth, Eva Lasarcyk, Stephanie Köser, and Dietrich Klakow. 2012. A Gold Standard for Relation Extraction in the Food Domain. In Proceedings of the Eighth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC'12), pages 507–514, Istanbul, Turkey. European Language Resources Association (ELRA).
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