OpenIE6: Iterative Grid Labeling and Coordination Analysis for Open Information Extraction

Keshav Kolluru, Vaibhav Adlakha, Samarth Aggarwal, Mausam, Soumen Chakrabarti


Abstract
A recent state-of-the-art neural open information extraction (OpenIE) system generates extractions iteratively, requiring repeated encoding of partial outputs. This comes at a significant computational cost. On the other hand,sequence labeling approaches for OpenIE are much faster, but worse in extraction quality. In this paper, we bridge this trade-off by presenting an iterative labeling-based system that establishes a new state of the art for OpenIE, while extracting 10x faster. This is achieved through a novel Iterative Grid Labeling (IGL) architecture, which treats OpenIE as a 2-D grid labeling task. We improve its performance further by applying coverage (soft) constraints on the grid at training time. Moreover, on observing that the best OpenIE systems falter at handling coordination structures, our OpenIE system also incorporates a new coordination analyzer built with the same IGL architecture. This IGL based coordination analyzer helps our OpenIE system handle complicated coordination structures, while also establishing a new state of the art on the task of coordination analysis, with a 12.3 pts improvement in F1 over previous analyzers. Our OpenIE system - OpenIE6 - beats the previous systems by as much as 4 pts in F1, while being much faster.
Anthology ID:
2020.emnlp-main.306
Volume:
Proceedings of the 2020 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP)
Month:
November
Year:
2020
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Online
Editors:
Bonnie Webber, Trevor Cohn, Yulan He, Yang Liu
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EMNLP
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Association for Computational Linguistics
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3748–3761
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URL:
https://aclanthology.org/2020.emnlp-main.306
DOI:
10.18653/v1/2020.emnlp-main.306
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Keshav Kolluru, Vaibhav Adlakha, Samarth Aggarwal, Mausam, and Soumen Chakrabarti. 2020. OpenIE6: Iterative Grid Labeling and Coordination Analysis for Open Information Extraction. In Proceedings of the 2020 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP), pages 3748–3761, Online. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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OpenIE6: Iterative Grid Labeling and Coordination Analysis for Open Information Extraction (Kolluru et al., EMNLP 2020)
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https://aclanthology.org/2020.emnlp-main.306.pdf
Video:
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Code
 dair-iitd/openie6
Data
CaRBOIE2016WiRe57