Separating Retention from Extraction in the Evaluation of End-to-end Relation Extraction

Bruno Taillé, Vincent Guigue, Geoffrey Scoutheeten, Patrick Gallinari


Abstract
State-of-the-art NLP models can adopt shallow heuristics that limit their generalization capability (McCoy et al., 2019). Such heuristics include lexical overlap with the training set in Named-Entity Recognition (Taille et al., 2020) and Event or Type heuristics in Relation Extraction (Rosenman et al., 2020). In the more realistic end-to-end RE setting, we can expect yet another heuristic: the mere retention of training relation triples. In this paper we propose two experiments confirming that retention of known facts is a key factor of performance on standard benchmarks. Furthermore, one experiment suggests that a pipeline model able to use intermediate type representations is less prone to over-rely on retention.
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2021.emnlp-main.816
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Proceedings of the 2021 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing
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November
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2021
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Online and Punta Cana, Dominican Republic
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Marie-Francine Moens, Xuanjing Huang, Lucia Specia, Scott Wen-tau Yih
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EMNLP
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Association for Computational Linguistics
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10438–10449
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https://aclanthology.org/2021.emnlp-main.816
DOI:
10.18653/v1/2021.emnlp-main.816
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Bruno Taillé, Vincent Guigue, Geoffrey Scoutheeten, and Patrick Gallinari. 2021. Separating Retention from Extraction in the Evaluation of End-to-end Relation Extraction. In Proceedings of the 2021 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, pages 10438–10449, Online and Punta Cana, Dominican Republic. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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Separating Retention from Extraction in the Evaluation of End-to-end Relation Extraction (Taillé et al., EMNLP 2021)
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