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Efficient long-distance relation extraction with DG-SpanBERT

7 Apr 2020Conference 2020 4arXiv:2004.03636archive 2025-07-28

Jun Chen, Robert Hoehndorf, Mohamed Elhoseiny, Xiangliang Zhang

In natural language processing, relation extraction seeks to rationally understand unstructured text. Here, we propose a novel SpanBERT-based graph convolutional network (DG-SpanBERT) that extracts semantic features from a raw sentence using the pre-trained language model SpanBERT and a graph convolutional network to pool latent features. Our DG-SpanBERT model inherits the advantage of SpanBERT on learning rich lexical features from large-scale corpus. It also has the ability to capture long-range relations between entities due to the usage of GCN on dependency tree. The experimental results show that our model outperforms other existing dependency-based and sequence-based models and achieves a state-of-the-art performance on the TACRED dataset.

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Language ModelingLanguage ModellingRelation ExtractionSentence

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Relation Extraction TACRED DG-SpanBERT-large F1 71.5 #19 of 40 Archive leaderboard report

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