BenchIE: A Framework for Multi-Faceted Fact-Based Open Information Extraction Evaluation

Kiril Gashteovski, Mingying Yu, Bhushan Kotnis, Carolin Lawrence, Mathias Niepert, Goran Glavaš


Abstract
Intrinsic evaluations of OIE systems are carried out either manually—with human evaluators judging the correctness of extractions—or automatically, on standardized benchmarks. The latter, while much more cost-effective, is less reliable, primarily because of the incompleteness of the existing OIE benchmarks: the ground truth extractions do not include all acceptable variants of the same fact, leading to unreliable assessment of the models’ performance. Moreover, the existing OIE benchmarks are available for English only. In this work, we introduce BenchIE: a benchmark and evaluation framework for comprehensive evaluation of OIE systems for English, Chinese, and German. In contrast to existing OIE benchmarks, BenchIE is fact-based, i.e., it takes into account informational equivalence of extractions: our gold standard consists of fact synsets, clusters in which we exhaustively list all acceptable surface forms of the same fact. Moreover, having in mind common downstream applications for OIE, we make BenchIE multi-faceted; i.e., we create benchmark variants that focus on different facets of OIE evaluation, e.g., compactness or minimality of extractions. We benchmark several state-of-the-art OIE systems using BenchIE and demonstrate that these systems are significantly less effective than indicated by existing OIE benchmarks. We make BenchIE (data and evaluation code) publicly available.
Anthology ID:
2022.acl-long.307
Volume:
Proceedings of the 60th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers)
Month:
May
Year:
2022
Address:
Dublin, Ireland
Editors:
Smaranda Muresan, Preslav Nakov, Aline Villavicencio
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ACL
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Publisher:
Association for Computational Linguistics
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Pages:
4472–4490
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URL:
https://aclanthology.org/2022.acl-long.307
DOI:
10.18653/v1/2022.acl-long.307
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Cite (ACL):
Kiril Gashteovski, Mingying Yu, Bhushan Kotnis, Carolin Lawrence, Mathias Niepert, and Goran Glavaš. 2022. BenchIE: A Framework for Multi-Faceted Fact-Based Open Information Extraction Evaluation. In Proceedings of the 60th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers), pages 4472–4490, Dublin, Ireland. Association for Computational Linguistics.
Cite (Informal):
BenchIE: A Framework for Multi-Faceted Fact-Based Open Information Extraction Evaluation (Gashteovski et al., ACL 2022)
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PDF:
https://aclanthology.org/2022.acl-long.307.pdf
Software:
 2022.acl-long.307.software.zip
Video:
 https://aclanthology.org/2022.acl-long.307.mp4
Code
 gkiril/benchie
Data
BenchIECaRBOIE2016