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Automatically learning linguistic structures for entity relation extraction

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Yanping Chen *
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Yongbin Qin
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Ping Chen
DOI:10.1016/j.ipm.2024.103904delete
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A sentence is composed of linguistically linked units, such as words or phrases. The dependencies between them compose the linguistic structures of a sentence, which indicates the meanings of linguistic units and encodes the syntactic or semantic relationships between them. Therefore, it is important to learn the linguistic structures of a sentence for entity relation extraction or other natural language processing (NLP) tasks. In related works, manual rules or dependency trees are usually adopted to capture the linguistic structures. These methods heavily depend on prior knowledge or external toolkits. In this paper, we introduce a Supervised Graph Autoencoder Network (SGAN) model to automatically learn the linguistic structures of a sentence. Unlike traditional graph neural networks that use a fixed adjacency matrix initialized with prior knowledge, the SGAN model contains a learnable adjacency matrix that is dynamically tuned by a task-relevant learning objective. It can automatically learn linguistic structures from raw input sentences. After being evaluated on seven public datasets, the SGAN achieves state-of-the-art (SOTA) performance, outperforming all compared models. The results show that automatically learned linguistic structures have better performance than manually designed linguistic patterns. It exhibits great potential for supporting entity relation extraction and other NLP tasks.
Keywords:
Relation extraction
Feature combination
Linguistic structures
Semantic dependencies

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Information Processing and Management
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university of massachusetts system
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guizhou university
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