Rel-grams: a probabilistic model of relations in text

  • Authors:
  • Niranjan Balasubramanian;Stephen Soderland; Mausam;Oren Etzioni

  • Affiliations:
  • University of Washington, Seattle, WA;University of Washington, Seattle, WA;University of Washington, Seattle, WA;University of Washington, Seattle, WA

  • Venue:
  • AKBC-WEKEX '12 Proceedings of the Joint Workshop on Automatic Knowledge Base Construction and Web-scale Knowledge Extraction
  • Year:
  • 2012

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Abstract

We introduce the Rel-grams language model, which is analogous to an n-grams model, but is computed over relations rather than over words. The model encodes the conditional probability of observing a relational tuple R, given that R' was observed in a window of prior relational tuples. We build a database of Rel-grams co-occurence statistics from Re-Verb extractions over 1.8M news wire documents and show that a graphical model based on these statistics is useful for automatically discovering event templates. We make this database freely available and hope it will prove a useful resource for a wide variety of NLP tasks.