Graphene: Semantically-Linked Propositions in Open Information Extraction

Matthias Cetto, Christina Niklaus, André Freitas, Siegfried Handschuh


Abstract
We present an Open Information Extraction (IE) approach that uses a two-layered transformation stage consisting of a clausal disembedding layer and a phrasal disembedding layer, together with rhetorical relation identification. In that way, we convert sentences that present a complex linguistic structure into simplified, syntactically sound sentences, from which we can extract propositions that are represented in a two-layered hierarchy in the form of core relational tuples and accompanying contextual information which are semantically linked via rhetorical relations. In a comparative evaluation, we demonstrate that our reference implementation Graphene outperforms state-of-the-art Open IE systems in the construction of correct n-ary predicate-argument structures. Moreover, we show that existing Open IE approaches can benefit from the transformation process of our framework.
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C18-1195
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Proceedings of the 27th International Conference on Computational Linguistics
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August
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2018
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Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA
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Emily M. Bender, Leon Derczynski, Pierre Isabelle
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COLING
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Association for Computational Linguistics
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2300–2311
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Matthias Cetto, Christina Niklaus, André Freitas, and Siegfried Handschuh. 2018. Graphene: Semantically-Linked Propositions in Open Information Extraction. In Proceedings of the 27th International Conference on Computational Linguistics, pages 2300–2311, Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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 Lambda-3/Graphene