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Google Brain: Pretraining and Finetuning for Relation Extraction on the Web (arxiv.org)
1 point by Katydid on Feb 25, 2021 | hide | past | pdf | discuss on HN

In plain words: A new set gives 110,000 web sentences hand-labeled with the relationships they contain, plus a huge pile of automatically labeled text to learn from first. Learning from the automatic text, then the hand-labeled set, finds relationships more accurately than noisy automatic labels alone.

Abstract · WebRED: Effective Pretraining And Finetuning For Relation Extraction On The Web

Relation extraction is used to populate knowledge bases that are important to many applications. Prior datasets used to train relation extraction models either suffer from noisy labels due to distant supervision, are limited to certain domains or are too small to train high-capacity models. This constrains downstream applications of relation extraction. We therefore introduce: WebRED (Web Relation Extraction Dataset), a strongly-supervised human annotated dataset for extracting relationships from a variety of text found on the World Wide Web, consisting of ~110K examples. We also describe the methods we used to collect ~200M examples as pre-training data for this task. We show that combining pre-training on a large weakly supervised dataset with fine-tuning on a small strongly-supervised dataset leads to better relation extraction performance. We provide baselines for this new dataset and present a case for the importance of human annotation in improving the performance of relation extraction from text found on the web.

Robert Ormandi, Mohammad Saleh, Erin Winter, Vinay Rao
arXiv:2102.09681 · cs.CL, cs.IR · submitted Feb 18, 2021
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