This paper contributes a joint embedding model for predicting relations between a pair of entities in the scenario of relation inference. It differs from most stand-alone approaches which separately operate on either knowledge bases or free texts. The proposed model simultaneously learns low-dimensional vector representations for both triplets in knowledge repositories and the mentions of relations in free texts, so that we can leverage the evidence both resources to make more accurate predictions. We use NELL to evaluate the performance of our approach, compared with cutting-edge methods. Results of extensive experiments show that our model achieves significant improvement on relation extraction.
Relation extraction with manual annotated corpora : Traditional approaches compete the performance on the public text datasets which are annotated by experts, such as ACE and MUC. They choose different features extracted from the texts, like kernel features @cite_15 or semantic parser features @cite_3 , and there is a comprehensive survey @cite_2 which shows more details about this branch. Relation extraction with distant supervision : Due to the limited scale and tedious labor caused by manual annotation, scientists explore an alternative way to automatically generate large-scale annotated corpora, named by distant supervision @cite_0 . Even though this cutting-edge technique solves the issue of lacking annotated corpora, we still suffer from the problem of noisy and sparse features @cite_8 .
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Modern models of relation extraction for tasks like ACE are based on supervised learning of relations from small hand-labeled corpora. We investigate an alternative paradigm that does not require labeled corpora, avoiding the domain dependence of ACE-style algorithms, and allowing the use of corpora of any size. Our experiments use Freebase, a large semantic database of several thousand relations, to provide distant supervision. For each pair of entities that appears in some Freebase relation, we find all sentences containing those entities in a large unlabeled corpus and extract textual features to train a relation classifier. Our algorithm combines the advantages of supervised IE (combining 400,000 noisy pattern features in a probabilistic classifier) and unsupervised IE (extracting large numbers of relations from large corpora of any domain). Our model is able to extract 10,000 instances of 102 relations at a precision of 67.6 . We also analyze feature performance, showing that syntactic parse features are particularly helpful for relations that are ambiguous or lexically distant in their expression. The goal of relation extraction is to detect relations between two entities in free text. In a sentence, a relation instance usually comprises a small number of words, which yields a sparse feature representation. To make better use of limited information in a relation instance, parsing trees and combined features are employed widely to capture the local dependencies of relation instances. However, the performance of parsing tree-based systems is often degraded by chunking or parsing errors. Combined features are used widely, but few studies have addressed how features can be combined to achieve optimal performance. Thus, in this study, we propose a feature assembly method for relation extraction. Six types of candidate features (head noun, POS tag, n-gram, omni-word, etc.) are employed as atomic features and six constraint conditions (singleton, position, syntax, etc.) are used to combine these features in different settings. Depending on the utilization of candidate features, different constraint conditions can be explored to achieve the optimal extraction performance. Our method is effective for capturing local dependencies and it reduces the errors caused by inaccurate parsing. We tested the proposed method using the ACE 2005 Chinese and English corpora, and it achieved state-of-the-art performance, where it was significantly superior to existing methods. Distant supervision for relation extraction is an efficient method to scale relation extraction to very large corpora which contains thousands of relations. However, the existing approaches have flaws on selecting valid instances and lack of background knowledge about the entities. In this paper, we propose a sentence-level attention model to select the valid instances, which makes full use of the supervision information from knowledge bases. And we extract entity descriptions from Freebase and Wikipedia pages to supplement background knowledge for our task. The background knowledge not only provides more information for predicting relations, but also brings better entity representations for the attention module. We conduct three experiments on a widely used dataset and the experimental results show that our approach outperforms all the baseline systems significantly. Many biomedical relation extraction approaches are based on supervised machine learning, requiring an annotated corpus. Distant supervision aims at training a classifier by combining a knowledge base with a corpus, reducing the amount of manual effort necessary. This is particularly useful for biomedicine because many databases and ontologies have been made available for many biological processes, while the availability of annotated corpora is still limited. We studied the extraction of microRNA-gene relations from text. MicroRNA regulation is an important biological process due to its close association with human diseases. The proposed method, IBRel, is based on distantly supervised multi-instance learning. We evaluated IBRel on three datasets, and the results were compared with a co-occurrence approach as well as a supervised machine learning algorithm. While supervised learning outperformed on two of those datasets, IBRel obtained an F-score 28.3 percentage points higher on the dataset for which there was no training set developed specifically. To demonstrate the applicability of IBRel, we used it to extract 27 miRNA-gene relations from recently published papers about cystic fibrosis. Our results demonstrate that our method can be successfully used to extract relations from literature about a biological process without an annotated corpus. The source code and data used in this study are available at https: github.com AndreLamurias IBRel.