Inter-sentence Relation Extraction with Document-level Graph Convolutional Neural Network

Sunil Kumar Sahu, Fenia Christopoulou, Makoto Miwa, Sophia Ananiadou


Abstract
Inter-sentence relation extraction deals with a number of complex semantic relationships in documents, which require local, non-local, syntactic and semantic dependencies. Existing methods do not fully exploit such dependencies. We present a novel inter-sentence relation extraction model that builds a labelled edge graph convolutional neural network model on a document-level graph. The graph is constructed using various inter- and intra-sentence dependencies to capture local and non-local dependency information. In order to predict the relation of an entity pair, we utilise multi-instance learning with bi-affine pairwise scoring. Experimental results show that our model achieves comparable performance to the state-of-the-art neural models on two biochemistry datasets. Our analysis shows that all the types in the graph are effective for inter-sentence relation extraction.
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P19-1423
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Proceedings of the 57th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics
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July
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2019
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Florence, Italy
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Anna Korhonen, David Traum, Lluís Màrquez
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ACL
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Association for Computational Linguistics
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4309–4316
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https://aclanthology.org/P19-1423
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10.18653/v1/P19-1423
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Sunil Kumar Sahu, Fenia Christopoulou, Makoto Miwa, and Sophia Ananiadou. 2019. Inter-sentence Relation Extraction with Document-level Graph Convolutional Neural Network. In Proceedings of the 57th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, pages 4309–4316, Florence, Italy. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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Inter-sentence Relation Extraction with Document-level Graph Convolutional Neural Network (Sahu et al., ACL 2019)
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