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ReSel: N-ary Relation Extraction from Scientific Text and Tables by Learning to Retrieve and Select
Proceedings of the 2022 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, EMNLP 2022
  • Yuchen Zhuang, Georgia Institute of Technology
  • Yinghao Li, Georgia Institute of Technology
  • Jerry Junyang Cheung, Georgia Institute of Technology
  • Yue Yu, Georgia Institute of Technology
  • Yingjun Mou, Georgia Institute of Technology
  • Xiang Chen, Adobe Inc.
  • Le Song, Mohamed Bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence & BioMap, Beijing, China
  • Chao Zhang, Georgia Institute of Technology
Document Type
Conference Proceeding
Abstract

We study the problem of extracting N-ary relation tuples from scientific articles. This task is challenging because the target knowledge tuples can reside in multiple parts and modalities of the document. Our proposed method RESEL decomposes this task into a two-stage procedure that first retrieves the most relevant paragraph/table and then selects the target entity from the retrieved component. For the high-level retrieval stage, RESEL designs a simple and effective feature set, which captures multilevel lexical and semantic similarities between the query and components. For the low-level selection stage, RESEL designs a cross-modal entity correlation graph along with a multi-view architecture, which models both semantic and document-structural relations between entities. Our experiments on three scientific information extraction datasets show that RESEL outperforms state-of-the-art baselines significantly.

Publication Date
1-1-2022
Keywords
  • Computational linguistics
Citation Information
Zhuang, Y., Li, Y., Zhang, J., Yu, Y., Mou, Y., Chen, X., Song, L. and Zhang, C. "ReSel: N-ary Relation Extraction from Scientific Text and Tables by Learning to Retrieve and Select", in Proceedings of the 2022 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, EMNLP 2022, Assoc. for Computational Linguistics, p. 730–744, Abu Dhabi, UAE, Dec 2022, https://aclanthology.org/2022.emnlp-main.46.pdf