OpenUE: An Open Toolkit of Universal Extraction from Text

Ningyu Zhang, Shumin Deng, Zhen Bi, Haiyang Yu, Jiacheng Yang, Mosha Chen, Fei Huang, Wei Zhang, Huajun Chen


Abstract
Natural language processing covers a wide variety of tasks with token-level or sentence-level understandings. In this paper, we provide a simple insight that most tasks can be represented in a single universal extraction format. We introduce a prototype model and provide an open-source and extensible toolkit called OpenUE for various extraction tasks. OpenUE allows developers to train custom models to extract information from the text and supports quick model validation for researchers. Besides, OpenUE provides various functional modules to maintain sufficient modularity and extensibility. Except for the toolkit, we also deploy an online demo with restful APIs to support real-time extraction without training and deploying. Additionally, the online system can extract information in various tasks, including relational triple extraction, slot & intent detection, event extraction, and so on. We release the source code, datasets, and pre-trained models to promote future researches in http://github.com/zjunlp/openue.
Anthology ID:
2020.emnlp-demos.1
Volume:
Proceedings of the 2020 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing: System Demonstrations
Month:
October
Year:
2020
Address:
Online
Editors:
Qun Liu, David Schlangen
Venue:
EMNLP
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Publisher:
Association for Computational Linguistics
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Pages:
1–8
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URL:
https://aclanthology.org/2020.emnlp-demos.1
DOI:
10.18653/v1/2020.emnlp-demos.1
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Cite (ACL):
Ningyu Zhang, Shumin Deng, Zhen Bi, Haiyang Yu, Jiacheng Yang, Mosha Chen, Fei Huang, Wei Zhang, and Huajun Chen. 2020. OpenUE: An Open Toolkit of Universal Extraction from Text. In Proceedings of the 2020 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing: System Demonstrations, pages 1–8, Online. Association for Computational Linguistics.
Cite (Informal):
OpenUE: An Open Toolkit of Universal Extraction from Text (Zhang et al., EMNLP 2020)
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PDF:
https://aclanthology.org/2020.emnlp-demos.1.pdf
Code
 zjunlp/openue
Data
WebNLG