Knowledge-Driven Cross-Document Relation Extraction

Monika Jain, Raghava Mutharaju, Kuldeep Singh, Ramakanth Kavuluru


Abstract
Relation extraction (RE) is a well-known NLP application often treated as a sentence or document-level task. However, a handful of recent efforts explore it across documents or in the cross-document setting (CrossDocRE). This is distinct from the single document case because different documents often focus on disparate themes, while text within a document tends to have a single goal.Current CrossDocRE efforts do not consider domain knowledge, which are often assumed to be known to the reader when documents are authored. Here, we propose a novel approach, KXDocRE, that embed domain knowledge of entities with input text for cross-document RE. Our proposed framework has three main benefits over baselines: 1) it incorporates domain knowledge of entities along with documents’ text; 2) it offers interpretability by producing explanatory text for predicted relations between entities 3) it improves performance over the prior methods. Code and models are available at https://github.com/kracr/cross-doc-relation-extraction.
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2024.findings-acl.227
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Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2024
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August
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2024
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Bangkok, Thailand
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Lun-Wei Ku, Andre Martins, Vivek Srikumar
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Findings
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Association for Computational Linguistics
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3787–3797
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https://aclanthology.org/2024.findings-acl.227
DOI:
10.18653/v1/2024.findings-acl.227
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Monika Jain, Raghava Mutharaju, Kuldeep Singh, and Ramakanth Kavuluru. 2024. Knowledge-Driven Cross-Document Relation Extraction. In Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2024, pages 3787–3797, Bangkok, Thailand. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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