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    title = "Span-Level Model for Relation Extraction",
    author = "Dixit, Kalpit  and
      Al-Onaizan, Yaser",
    editor = "Korhonen, Anna  and
      Traum, David  and
      M{\`a}rquez, Llu{\'i}s",
    booktitle = "Proceedings of the 57th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics",
    month = jul,
    year = "2019",
    address = "Florence, Italy",
    publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
    url = "https://aclanthology.org/P19-1525/",
    doi = "10.18653/v1/P19-1525",
    pages = "5308--5314",
    abstract = "Relation Extraction is the task of identifying entity mention spans in raw text and then identifying relations between pairs of the entity mentions. Recent approaches for this span-level task have been token-level models which have inherent limitations. They cannot easily define and implement span-level features, cannot model overlapping entity mentions and have cascading errors due to the use of sequential decoding. To address these concerns, we present a model which directly models all possible spans and performs joint entity mention detection and relation extraction. We report a new state-of-the-art performance of 62.83 F1 (prev best was 60.49) on the ACE2005 dataset."
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%A Al-Onaizan, Yaser
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%Y Màrquez, Lluís
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Markdown (Informal)
[Span-Level Model for Relation Extraction](https://aclanthology.org/P19-1525/) (Dixit & Al-Onaizan, ACL 2019)
ACL
- Kalpit Dixit and Yaser Al-Onaizan. 2019. Span-Level Model for Relation Extraction. In Proceedings of the 57th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, pages 5308–5314, Florence, Italy. Association for Computational Linguistics.