Noise-Clustered Distant Supervision for Relation Extraction: A Nonparametric Bayesian Perspective

Qing Zhang, Houfeng Wang


Abstract
For the task of relation extraction, distant supervision is an efficient approach to generate labeled data by aligning knowledge base with free texts. The essence of it is a challenging incomplete multi-label classification problem with sparse and noisy features. To address the challenge, this work presents a novel nonparametric Bayesian formulation for the task. Experiment results show substantially higher top precision improvements over the traditional state-of-the-art approaches.
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D17-1192
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Proceedings of the 2017 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing
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September
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2017
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Copenhagen, Denmark
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Martha Palmer, Rebecca Hwa, Sebastian Riedel
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EMNLP
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SIGDAT
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Association for Computational Linguistics
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1808–1813
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https://aclanthology.org/D17-1192
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10.18653/v1/D17-1192
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Qing Zhang and Houfeng Wang. 2017. Noise-Clustered Distant Supervision for Relation Extraction: A Nonparametric Bayesian Perspective. In Proceedings of the 2017 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, pages 1808–1813, Copenhagen, Denmark. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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Noise-Clustered Distant Supervision for Relation Extraction: A Nonparametric Bayesian Perspective (Zhang & Wang, EMNLP 2017)
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