QuickGraph: A Rapid Annotation Tool for Knowledge Graph Extraction from Technical Text

Tyler Bikaun, Michael Stewart, Wei Liu


Abstract
Acquiring high-quality annotated corpora for complex multi-task information extraction (MT-IE) is an arduous and costly process for human-annotators. Adoption of unsupervised techniques for automated annotation have thus become popular. However, these techniques rely heavily on dictionaries, gazetteers, and knowledge bases. While such resources are abundant for general domains, they are scarce for specialised technical domains. To tackle this challenge, we present QuickGraph, the first collaborative MT-IE annotation tool built with indirect weak supervision and clustering to maximise annotator productivity. QuickGraph’s main contribution is a set of novel features that enable knowledge graph extraction through rapid and consistent complex multi-task entity and relation annotation. In this paper, we discuss these key features and qualitatively compare QuickGraph to existing annotation tools.
Anthology ID:
2022.acl-demo.27
Volume:
Proceedings of the 60th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics: System Demonstrations
Month:
May
Year:
2022
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Dublin, Ireland
Editors:
Valerio Basile, Zornitsa Kozareva, Sanja Stajner
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ACL
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Association for Computational Linguistics
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Pages:
270–278
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URL:
https://aclanthology.org/2022.acl-demo.27
DOI:
10.18653/v1/2022.acl-demo.27
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Cite (ACL):
Tyler Bikaun, Michael Stewart, and Wei Liu. 2022. QuickGraph: A Rapid Annotation Tool for Knowledge Graph Extraction from Technical Text. In Proceedings of the 60th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics: System Demonstrations, pages 270–278, Dublin, Ireland. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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QuickGraph: A Rapid Annotation Tool for Knowledge Graph Extraction from Technical Text (Bikaun et al., ACL 2022)
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https://aclanthology.org/2022.acl-demo.27.pdf
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Code
 nlp-tlp/quickgraph