{"about":{"site":"https://codewithpapers.app","non_affiliation":"Code with Papers and Syntology are not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by Papers with Code, Meta, or the pwc-archive mirror.","licence":"CC BY-SA 4.0","licence_url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode","attribution":"https://codewithpapers.app/attribution","modified":"archive material modified by Syntology; see the attribution page"},"url":"/paper/x-wikire-a-large-multilingual-resource-for","title":"X-WikiRE: A Large, Multilingual Resource for Relation Extraction as Machine Comprehension","arxiv_id":"1908.05111","date":"2019-08-14","proceeding":"WS 2019 11","authors":["Mostafa Abdou","Cezar Sas","Rahul Aralikatte","Isabelle Augenstein","Anders Søgaard"],"abstract":"Although the vast majority of knowledge bases KBs are heavily biased towards English, Wikipedias do cover very different topics in different languages. Exploiting this, we introduce a new multilingual dataset (X-WikiRE), framing relation extraction as a multilingual machine reading problem. We show that by leveraging this resource it is possible to robustly transfer models cross-lingually and that multilingual support significantly improves (zero-shot) relation extraction, enabling the population of low-resourced KBs from their well-populated counterparts.","url_abs":"https://arxiv.org/abs/1908.05111v2","url_pdf":"https://arxiv.org/pdf/1908.05111v2.pdf","source":{"archive":"pwc-archive (Hugging Face), CC BY-SA 4.0","snapshot":"2025-07-28","licence_url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode","row_kind":"abstracts"},"code_links":[{"paper_slug":"x-wikire-a-large-multilingual-resource-for","repo_url":"https://github.com/mhany90/Multi-WikiRE","is_official":1,"mentioned_in_paper":0,"mentioned_in_github":0,"framework":"none","reach":null}],"tasks":[{"task_slug":"reading-comprehension","task_name":"Reading Comprehension"},{"task_slug":null,"task_name":"Relation"},{"task_slug":"relation-extraction","task_name":"Relation Extraction"}],"methods":[],"datasets_introduced":[{"slug":"x-wikire","name":"X-WikiRE","full_name":"X-WikiRE"}],"methods_introduced":[],"results":[],"syntology":{"atlas_url":"https://app.syntology.ai/?focus=1908.05111","mcp":null,"developers":"https://syntology.ai/developers"},"arxiv_metadata":null,"syntology_extracted_results":null}