Temporally anchored relation extraction

  • Authors:
  • Guillermo Garrido;Anselmo Peñas;Bernardo Cabaleiro;Álvaro Rodrigo

  • Affiliations:
  • NLP & IR Group at UNED, Madrid, Spain;NLP & IR Group at UNED, Madrid, Spain;NLP & IR Group at UNED, Madrid, Spain;NLP & IR Group at UNED, Madrid, Spain

  • Venue:
  • ACL '12 Proceedings of the 50th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Long Papers - Volume 1
  • Year:
  • 2012

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Abstract

Although much work on relation extraction has aimed at obtaining static facts, many of the target relations are actually fluents, as their validity is naturally anchored to a certain time period. This paper proposes a methodological approach to temporally anchored relation extraction. Our proposal performs distant supervised learning to extract a set of relations from a natural language corpus, and anchors each of them to an interval of temporal validity, aggregating evidence from documents supporting the relation. We use a rich graph-based document-level representation to generate novel features for this task. Results show that our implementation for temporal anchoring is able to achieve a 69% of the upper bound performance imposed by the relation extraction step. Compared to the state of the art, the overall system achieves the highest precision reported.