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title = "{R}el{E}x-{PT}: A {P}ortuguese Sentence-Level Relation Extraction Dataset",
author = "Pinto, Tom{\'a}s and
Silva, Catarina and
Goncalo Oliveira, Hugo",
editor = "Piperidis, Stelios and
Bel, N{\'u}ria and
van den Heuvel, Henk and
Ide, Nancy and
Krek, Simon and
Toral, Antonio",
booktitle = "Proceedings of the Fifteenth Language Resources and Evaluation Conference",
month = may,
year = "2026",
address = "Palma de Mallorca, Spain",
publisher = "ELRA Language Resource Association",
url = "https://aclanthology.org/2026.lrec-1.609/",
doi = "10.63317/473a5ncxrap4",
pages = "7681--7691",
abstract = "We introduce RelEx-PT, a new sentence-level Relation Extraction dataset for Portuguese. Addressing the scarcity of high-quality, controlled resources for the language, RelEx-PT provides a balanced benchmark comprising 18 Wikidata-derived relation types across diverse domains. The dataset is built through a distant supervision pipeline that links Wikidata triples with Portuguese Wikipedia sentences and enhanced by a Natural Language Inference (NLI)-based filtering process, combining scalability with quality assurance. Additionally, we conduct baseline experiments to evaluate the dataset{'}s applicability across diverse extraction settings, including Relation Classification (RC), Relation Triple Extraction, and Open Information Extraction. These experiments leverage both prompting and fine-tuning strategies using Large Language Models. The results show that RelEx-PT effectively supports a range of extraction paradigms, yielding high performance in RC and competitive results in structured triple generation, while also highlighting key challenges in open-ended extraction."
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%A Pinto, Tomás
%A Silva, Catarina
%A Goncalo Oliveira, Hugo
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%Y Bel, Núria
%Y van den Heuvel, Henk
%Y Ide, Nancy
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%D 2026
%8 May
%I ELRA Language Resource Association
%C Palma de Mallorca, Spain
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Markdown (Informal)
[RelEx-PT: A Portuguese Sentence-Level Relation Extraction Dataset](https://aclanthology.org/2026.lrec-1.609/) (Pinto et al., LREC 2026)
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