Event-Guided Denoising for Multilingual Relation Learning

Amith Ananthram, Emily Allaway, Kathleen McKeown


Abstract
General purpose relation extraction has recently seen considerable gains in part due to a massively data-intensive distant supervision technique from Soares et al. (2019) that produces state-of-the-art results across many benchmarks. In this work, we present a methodology for collecting high quality training data for relation extraction from unlabeled text that achieves a near-recreation of their zero-shot and few-shot results at a fraction of the training cost. Our approach exploits the predictable distributional structure of date-marked news articles to build a denoised corpus – the extraction process filters out low quality examples. We show that a smaller multilingual encoder trained on this corpus performs comparably to the current state-of-the-art (when both receive little to no fine-tuning) on few-shot and standard relation benchmarks in English and Spanish despite using many fewer examples (50k vs. 300mil+).
Anthology ID:
2020.coling-main.131
Volume:
Proceedings of the 28th International Conference on Computational Linguistics
Month:
December
Year:
2020
Address:
Barcelona, Spain (Online)
Editors:
Donia Scott, Nuria Bel, Chengqing Zong
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COLING
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International Committee on Computational Linguistics
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Pages:
1505–1512
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URL:
https://aclanthology.org/2020.coling-main.131
DOI:
10.18653/v1/2020.coling-main.131
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Cite (ACL):
Amith Ananthram, Emily Allaway, and Kathleen McKeown. 2020. Event-Guided Denoising for Multilingual Relation Learning. In Proceedings of the 28th International Conference on Computational Linguistics, pages 1505–1512, Barcelona, Spain (Online). International Committee on Computational Linguistics.
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Event-Guided Denoising for Multilingual Relation Learning (Ananthram et al., COLING 2020)
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https://aclanthology.org/2020.coling-main.131.pdf
Data
FewRelRCV1SemEval-2010 Task-8