Cardinal virtues: Extracting relation cardinalities from text

Paramita Mirza, Simon Razniewski, Fariz Darari, Gerhard Weikum

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Abstract

Information extraction (IE) from text has largely focused on relations between individual entities, such as who has won which award. However, some facts are never fully mentioned, and no IE method has perfect recall. Thus, it is beneficial to also tap contents about the cardinalities of these relations, for example, how many awards someone has won. We introduce this novel problem of extracting cardinalities and discuss specific challenges that set it apart from standard IE. We present a distant supervision method using conditional random fields. A preliminary evaluation results in precision between 3% and 55%, depending on the difficulty of relations.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationACL 2017 - 55th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Proceedings of the Conference (Short Papers)
PublisherAssociation for Computational Linguistics (ACL)
Pages347-351
Number of pages5
ISBN (Electronic)9781945626760
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2017
Event55th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, ACL 2017 - Vancouver, Canada
Duration: 30 Jul 20174 Aug 2017

Publication series

NameACL 2017 - 55th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Proceedings of the Conference (Long Papers)
Volume2

Conference

Conference55th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, ACL 2017
Country/TerritoryCanada
CityVancouver
Period30/07/174/08/17

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