Distant Supervision for Relation Extraction with an Incomplete Knowledge Base

Bonan Min, Ralph Grishman, Li Wan, Chang Wang, David Gondek

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Abstract

Distant supervision, heuristically labeling a corpus using a knowledge base, has emerged as a popular choice for training relation extractors. In this paper, we show that a significant number of “negative“examples generated by the labeling process are false negatives because the knowledge base is incomplete. Therefore the heuristic for generating negative examples has a serious flaw. Building on a state-of-the-art distantly-supervised extraction algorithm, we proposed an algorithm that learns from only positive and unlabeled labels at the pair-of-entity level. Experimental results demonstrate its advantage over existing algorithms.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Title of host publicationProceedings of the 2nd Workshop on Computational Linguistics for Literature, CLfL 2013 at the 2013 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics
Subtitle of host publicationHuman Language Technologies, NAACL-HLT 2013
EditorsDavid Elson, Anna Kazantseva, Stan Szpakowicz
PublisherAssociation for Computational Linguistics (ACL)
Pages777-782
Number of pages6
ISBN (Electronic)9781937284473
StatePublished - 2013
Event2nd Workshop on Computational Linguistics for Literature, CLfL 2013 at the 2013 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies, NAACL-HLT 2013 - Atlanta, United States
Duration: Jun 14 2013 → …

Publication series

NameProceedings of the 2nd Workshop on Computational Linguistics for Literature, CLfL 2013 at the 2013 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies, NAACL-HLT 2013

Conference

Conference2nd Workshop on Computational Linguistics for Literature, CLfL 2013 at the 2013 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies, NAACL-HLT 2013
Country/TerritoryUnited States
CityAtlanta
Period6/14/13 → …

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Language and Linguistics
  • Linguistics and Language

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