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Modeling Dense Cross-Modal Interactions for Joint Entity-Relation Extraction

1 Jul 2020archive 2025-07-28

Shan Zhao, Minghao Hu, Zhiping Cai, Fang Liu

Joint extraction of entities and their relations benefits from the close interaction between named entities and their relation information. Therefore, how to effectively model such cross-modal interactions is critical for the final performance. Previous works have used simple methods such as label-feature concatenation to perform coarse-grained semantic fusion among cross-modal instances, but fail to capture fine-grained correlations over token and label spaces, resulting in insufficient interactions. In this paper, we propose a deep Cross-Modal Attention Network (CMAN) for joint entity and relation extraction. The network is carefully constructed by stacking multiple attention units in depth to fully model dense interactions over token-label spaces, in which two basic attention units are proposed to explicitly capture fine-grained correlations across different modalities (e.g., token-to-token and labelto-token). Experiment results on CoNLL04 dataset show that our model obtains state-of-the-art results by achieving 90.62% F1 on entity recognition and 72.97% F1 on relation classification. In ADE dataset, our model surpasses existing approaches by more than 1.9% F1 on relation classification. Extensive analyses further confirm the effectiveness of our approach.

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Joint Entity and Relation ExtractionRelation ClassificationRelation Extraction

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Relation Extraction Adverse Drug Events (ADE) Corpus CMAN NER Macro F1 89.40 #8 of 15 Archive leaderboard report
Relation Extraction Adverse Drug Events (ADE) Corpus CMAN RE+ Macro F1 81.14 #8 of 15 Archive leaderboard report

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