DeepREF: A Framework for Optimized Deep Learning-based Relation Classification

Igor Nascimento, Rinaldo Lima, Adrian-Gabriel Chifu, Bernard Espinasse, Sébastien Fournier


Abstract
The Relation Extraction (RE) is an important basic Natural Language Processing (NLP) for many applications, such as search engines, recommender systems, question-answering systems and others. There are many studies in this subarea of NLP that continue to be explored, such as SemEval campaigns (2010 to 2018), or DDI Extraction (2013).For more than ten years, different RE systems using mainly statistical models have been proposed as well as the frameworks to develop them. This paper focuses on frameworks allowing to develop such RE systems using deep learning models. Such frameworks should make it possible to reproduce experiments of various deep learning models and pre-processing techniques proposed in various publications. Currently, there are very few frameworks of this type, and we propose a new open and optimizable framework, called DeepREF, which is inspired by the OpenNRE and REflex existing frameworks. DeepREF allows the employment of various deep learning models, to optimize their use, to identify the best inputs and to get better results with each data set for RE and compare with other experiments, making ablation studies possible. The DeepREF Framework is evaluated on several reference corpora from various application domains.
Anthology ID:
2022.lrec-1.480
Volume:
Proceedings of the Thirteenth Language Resources and Evaluation Conference
Month:
June
Year:
2022
Address:
Marseille, France
Editors:
Nicoletta Calzolari, Frédéric Béchet, Philippe Blache, Khalid Choukri, Christopher Cieri, Thierry Declerck, Sara Goggi, Hitoshi Isahara, Bente Maegaard, Joseph Mariani, Hélène Mazo, Jan Odijk, Stelios Piperidis
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LREC
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European Language Resources Association
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Pages:
4513–4522
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URL:
https://aclanthology.org/2022.lrec-1.480
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Cite (ACL):
Igor Nascimento, Rinaldo Lima, Adrian-Gabriel Chifu, Bernard Espinasse, and Sébastien Fournier. 2022. DeepREF: A Framework for Optimized Deep Learning-based Relation Classification. In Proceedings of the Thirteenth Language Resources and Evaluation Conference, pages 4513–4522, Marseille, France. European Language Resources Association.
Cite (Informal):
DeepREF: A Framework for Optimized Deep Learning-based Relation Classification (Nascimento et al., LREC 2022)
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https://aclanthology.org/2022.lrec-1.480.pdf
Code
 igorvlnascimento/deepref
Data
TACRED