Structured relation discovery using generative models

  • Authors:
  • Limin Yao;Aria Haghighi;Sebastian Riedel;Andrew McCallum

  • Affiliations:
  • University of Massachusetts at Amherst;CSAIL, Massachusetts Institute of Technology;University of Massachusetts at Amherst;University of Massachusetts at Amherst

  • Venue:
  • EMNLP '11 Proceedings of the Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing
  • Year:
  • 2011

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Abstract

We explore unsupervised approaches to relation extraction between two named entities; for instance, the semantic bornIn relation between a person and location entity. Concretely, we propose a series of generative probabilistic models, broadly similar to topic models, each which generates a corpus of observed triples of entity mention pairs and the surface syntactic dependency path between them. The output of each model is a clustering of observed relation tuples and their associated textual expressions to underlying semantic relation types. Our proposed models exploit entity type constraints within a relation as well as features on the dependency path between entity mentions. We examine effectiveness of our approach via multiple evaluations and demonstrate 12% error reduction in precision over a state-of-the-art weakly supervised baseline.