An Argument Extraction Decoder in Open Information Extraction

Yucheng Li, Yan Yang, Qinmin Hu, Chengcai Chen, Liang He

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Abstract

In this paper, we present a feature fusion decoder for argument extraction in Open Information Extraction (Open IE), where we challenge argument extraction as a predicate-dependent task. Therefore, we create a predicate-specific embedding layer to allow the argument extraction module fully shares the predicate information and the contextualized information of the given sentence, after using a pre-trained BERT model to achieve the predicates. After that, we propose a decoder in argument extraction that leverages both token features and span features to extract arguments with two steps as argument boundary identification by token features and argument role labeling by span features. Experimental results show that the proposed decoder significantly enhances the extraction performance. Our approach establishes a new state-of-the-art result on two benchmarks as OIE2016 and Re-OIE2016.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationAdvances in Information Retrieval - 43rd European Conference on IR Research, ECIR 2021, Proceedings
EditorsDjoerd Hiemstra, Marie-Francine Moens, Josiane Mothe, Raffaele Perego, Martin Potthast, Fabrizio Sebastiani
PublisherSpringer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH
Pages313-326
Number of pages14
ISBN (Print)9783030721121
DOIs
StatePublished - 2021
Event43rd European Conference on Information Retrieval Research, ECIR 2021 - Virtual, Online
Duration: 28 Mar 20211 Apr 2021

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Volume12656 LNCS
ISSN (Print)0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)1611-3349

Conference

Conference43rd European Conference on Information Retrieval Research, ECIR 2021
CityVirtual, Online
Period28/03/211/04/21

Keywords

  • Argument extraction
  • Decoder
  • Open Information Extraction
  • Span extraction

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