OpenNRE: An Open and Extensible Toolkit for Neural Relation Extraction

Xu Han, Tianyu Gao, Yuan Yao, Deming Ye, Zhiyuan Liu, Maosong Sun


Abstract
OpenNRE is an open-source and extensible toolkit that provides a unified framework to implement neural models for relation extraction (RE). Specifically, by implementing typical RE methods, OpenNRE not only allows developers to train custom models to extract structured relational facts from the plain text but also supports quick model validation for researchers. Besides, OpenNRE provides various functional RE modules based on both TensorFlow and PyTorch to maintain sufficient modularity and extensibility, making it becomes easy to incorporate new models into the framework. Besides the toolkit, we also release an online system to meet real-time extraction without any training and deploying. Meanwhile, the online system can extract facts in various scenarios as well as aligning the extracted facts to Wikidata, which may benefit various downstream knowledge-driven applications (e.g., information retrieval and question answering). More details of the toolkit and online system can be obtained from http://github.com/thunlp/OpenNRE.
Anthology ID:
D19-3029
Volume:
Proceedings of the 2019 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing and the 9th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing (EMNLP-IJCNLP): System Demonstrations
Month:
November
Year:
2019
Address:
Hong Kong, China
Editors:
Sebastian Padó, Ruihong Huang
Venues:
EMNLP | IJCNLP
SIG:
SIGDAT
Publisher:
Association for Computational Linguistics
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Pages:
169–174
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URL:
https://aclanthology.org/D19-3029
DOI:
10.18653/v1/D19-3029
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Cite (ACL):
Xu Han, Tianyu Gao, Yuan Yao, Deming Ye, Zhiyuan Liu, and Maosong Sun. 2019. OpenNRE: An Open and Extensible Toolkit for Neural Relation Extraction. In Proceedings of the 2019 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing and the 9th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing (EMNLP-IJCNLP): System Demonstrations, pages 169–174, Hong Kong, China. Association for Computational Linguistics.
Cite (Informal):
OpenNRE: An Open and Extensible Toolkit for Neural Relation Extraction (Han et al., EMNLP-IJCNLP 2019)
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PDF:
https://aclanthology.org/D19-3029.pdf
Code
 thunlp/OpenNRE
Data
SemEval-2010 Task-8