Dual Supervision Framework for Relation Extraction with Distant Supervision and Human Annotation

Woohwan Jung, Kyuseok Shim


Abstract
Relation extraction (RE) has been extensively studied due to its importance in real-world applications such as knowledge base construction and question answering. Most of the existing works train the models on either distantly supervised data or human-annotated data. To take advantage of the high accuracy of human annotation and the cheap cost of distant supervision, we propose the dual supervision framework which effectively utilizes both types of data. However, simply combining the two types of data to train a RE model may decrease the prediction accuracy since distant supervision has labeling bias. We employ two separate prediction networks HA-Net and DS-Net to predict the labels by human annotation and distant supervision, respectively, to prevent the degradation of accuracy by the incorrect labeling of distant supervision. Furthermore, we propose an additional loss term called disagreement penalty to enable HA-Net to learn from distantly supervised labels. In addition, we exploit additional networks to adaptively assess the labeling bias by considering contextual information. Our performance study on sentence-level and document-level REs confirms the effectiveness of the dual supervision framework.
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2020.coling-main.564
Volume:
Proceedings of the 28th International Conference on Computational Linguistics
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December
Year:
2020
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Barcelona, Spain (Online)
Editors:
Donia Scott, Nuria Bel, Chengqing Zong
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COLING
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International Committee on Computational Linguistics
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6411–6423
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https://aclanthology.org/2020.coling-main.564
DOI:
10.18653/v1/2020.coling-main.564
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Woohwan Jung and Kyuseok Shim. 2020. Dual Supervision Framework for Relation Extraction with Distant Supervision and Human Annotation. In Proceedings of the 28th International Conference on Computational Linguistics, pages 6411–6423, Barcelona, Spain (Online). International Committee on Computational Linguistics.
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Dual Supervision Framework for Relation Extraction with Distant Supervision and Human Annotation (Jung & Shim, COLING 2020)
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