RAAT: Relation-Augmented Attention Transformer for Relation Modeling in Document-Level Event Extraction

Yuan Liang, Zhuoxuan Jiang, Di Yin, Bo Ren


Abstract
In document-level event extraction (DEE) task, event arguments always scatter across sentences (across-sentence issue) and multipleevents may lie in one document (multi-event issue). In this paper, we argue that the relation information of event arguments is of greatsignificance for addressing the above two issues, and propose a new DEE framework which can model the relation dependencies, calledRelation-augmented Document-level Event Extraction (ReDEE). More specifically, this framework features a novel and tailored transformer,named as Relation-augmented Attention Transformer (RAAT). RAAT is scalable to capture multi-scale and multi-amount argument relations. To further leverage relation information, we introduce a separate event relation prediction task and adopt multi-task learning method to explicitly enhance event extraction performance. Extensive experiments demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed method, which can achieve state-of-the-art performance on two public datasets. Our code is available at https://github.com/TencentYoutuResearch/RAAT.
Anthology ID:
2022.naacl-main.367
Volume:
Proceedings of the 2022 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies
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July
Year:
2022
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Seattle, United States
Editors:
Marine Carpuat, Marie-Catherine de Marneffe, Ivan Vladimir Meza Ruiz
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NAACL
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Association for Computational Linguistics
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4985–4997
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URL:
https://aclanthology.org/2022.naacl-main.367
DOI:
10.18653/v1/2022.naacl-main.367
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Cite (ACL):
Yuan Liang, Zhuoxuan Jiang, Di Yin, and Bo Ren. 2022. RAAT: Relation-Augmented Attention Transformer for Relation Modeling in Document-Level Event Extraction. In Proceedings of the 2022 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies, pages 4985–4997, Seattle, United States. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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RAAT: Relation-Augmented Attention Transformer for Relation Modeling in Document-Level Event Extraction (Liang et al., NAACL 2022)
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Code
 TencentYoutuResearch/EventExtraction-RAAT
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