Learning the Extraction Order of Multiple Relational Facts in a Sentence with Reinforcement Learning

Xiangrong Zeng, Shizhu He, Daojian Zeng, Kang Liu, Shengping Liu, Jun Zhao


Abstract
The multiple relation extraction task tries to extract all relational facts from a sentence. Existing works didn’t consider the extraction order of relational facts in a sentence. In this paper we argue that the extraction order is important in this task. To take the extraction order into consideration, we apply the reinforcement learning into a sequence-to-sequence model. The proposed model could generate relational facts freely. Widely conducted experiments on two public datasets demonstrate the efficacy of the proposed method.
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D19-1035
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)
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November
Year:
2019
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Hong Kong, China
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Kentaro Inui, Jing Jiang, Vincent Ng, Xiaojun Wan
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EMNLP | IJCNLP
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SIGDAT
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Association for Computational Linguistics
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367–377
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https://aclanthology.org/D19-1035
DOI:
10.18653/v1/D19-1035
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Xiangrong Zeng, Shizhu He, Daojian Zeng, Kang Liu, Shengping Liu, and Jun Zhao. 2019. Learning the Extraction Order of Multiple Relational Facts in a Sentence with Reinforcement Learning. 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), pages 367–377, Hong Kong, China. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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Learning the Extraction Order of Multiple Relational Facts in a Sentence with Reinforcement Learning (Zeng et al., EMNLP-IJCNLP 2019)
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