Title
Distant supervision for relation extraction with hierarchical selective attention.
Abstract
Distant supervised relation extraction is an important task in the field of natural language processing. There are two main shortcomings for most state-of-the-art methods. One is that they take all sentences of an entity pair as input, which would result in a large computational cost. But in fact, few of most relevant sentences are enough to recognize the relation of an entity pair. To tackle these problems, we propose a novel hierarchical selective attention network for relation extraction under distant supervision. Our model first selects most relevant sentences by taking coarse sentence-level attention on all sentences of an entity pair and then employs word-level attention to construct sentence representations and fine sentence-level attention to aggregate these sentence representations. Experimental results on a widely used dataset demonstrate that our method performs significantly better than most of existing methods.
Year
DOI
Venue
2018
10.1016/j.neunet.2018.08.016
Neural Networks
Keywords
Field
DocType
Relation extraction,Distant supervision,Hierarchical attention,Piecewise convolutional neural networks
Selective attention,Artificial intelligence,Sentence,Mathematics,Machine learning,Relationship extraction
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
108
1
0893-6080
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
2
0.37
22
Authors
6
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
P. Zhou137226.80
Jiaming Xu228435.34
Zhenyu Qi333722.70
Hongyun Bao4694.32
Zhineng Chen519225.29
Bo Xu611220.58