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Neural Metric Learning for Fast End-to-End Relation Extraction

17 May 2019arXiv:1905.07458archive 2025-07-28

Tung Tran, Ramakanth Kavuluru

Relation extraction (RE) is an indispensable information extraction task in several disciplines. RE models typically assume that named entity recognition (NER) is already performed in a previous step by another independent model. Several recent efforts, under the theme of end-to-end RE, seek to exploit inter-task correlations by modeling both NER and RE tasks jointly. Earlier work in this area commonly reduces the task to a table-filling problem wherein an additional expensive decoding step involving beam search is applied to obtain globally consistent cell labels. In efforts that do not employ table-filling, global optimization in the form of CRFs with Viterbi decoding for the NER component is still necessary for competitive performance. We introduce a novel neural architecture utilizing the table structure, based on repeated applications of 2D convolutions for pooling local dependency and metric-based features, that improves on the state-of-the-art without the need for global optimization. We validate our model on the ADE and CoNLL04 datasets for end-to-end RE and demonstrate ≈1% gain (in F-score) over prior best results with training and testing times that are seven to ten times faster --- the latter highly advantageous for time-sensitive end user applications.

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Metric LearningNERNamed Entity RecognitionNamed Entity Recognition (NER)Relation Extractionglobal-optimizationnamed-entity-recognition

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TaskDatasetModelMetricValueRank at snapshotLeaderboardReport
Relation Extraction Adverse Drug Events (ADE) Corpus Relation-Metric NER Macro F1 87.02 #13 of 15 Archive leaderboard report
Relation Extraction Adverse Drug Events (ADE) Corpus Relation-Metric RE+ Macro F1 77.19 #13 of 15 Archive leaderboard report
Relation Extraction CoNLL04 Relation-Metric with AT NER Macro F1 84.15 #6 of 16 Archive leaderboard report
Relation Extraction CoNLL04 Relation-Metric with AT RE+ Macro F1 62.29 #6 of 16 Archive leaderboard report

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