DORE: Document Ordered Relation Extraction based on Generative Framework

Qipeng Guo, Yuqing Yang, Hang Yan, Xipeng Qiu, Zheng Zhang


Abstract
In recent years, there is a surge of generation-based information extraction work, which allows a more direct use of pre-trained language models and efficiently captures output dependencies. However, previous generative methods using lexical representation do not naturally fit document-level relation extraction (DocRE) where there are multiple entities and relational facts. In this paper, we investigate the root cause of the underwhelming performance of the existing generative DocRE models and discover that the culprit is the inadequacy of the training paradigm, instead of the capacities of the models. We propose to generate a symbolic and ordered sequence from the relation matrix which is deterministic and easier for model to learn. Moreover, we design a parallel row generation method to process overlong target sequences. Besides, we introduce several negative sampling strategies to improve the performance with balanced signals. Experimental results on four datasets show that our proposed method can improve the performance of the generative DocRE models.
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2022.findings-emnlp.253
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Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2022
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December
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2022
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Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
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Yoav Goldberg, Zornitsa Kozareva, Yue Zhang
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Findings
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Association for Computational Linguistics
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3463–3474
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https://aclanthology.org/2022.findings-emnlp.253
DOI:
10.18653/v1/2022.findings-emnlp.253
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Qipeng Guo, Yuqing Yang, Hang Yan, Xipeng Qiu, and Zheng Zhang. 2022. DORE: Document Ordered Relation Extraction based on Generative Framework. In Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2022, pages 3463–3474, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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