CERES: Distantly Supervised Relation Extraction from the Semi-Structured Web
| Autor: | Lockard, Colin, Dong, Xin Luna, Einolghozati, Arash, Shiralkar, Prashant |
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| Rok vydání: | 2018 |
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| Druh dokumentu: | Working Paper |
| Popis: | The web contains countless semi-structured websites, which can be a rich source of information for populating knowledge bases. Existing methods for extracting relations from the DOM trees of semi-structured webpages can achieve high precision and recall only when manual annotations for each website are available. Although there have been efforts to learn extractors from automatically-generated labels, these methods are not sufficiently robust to succeed in settings with complex schemas and information-rich websites. In this paper we present a new method for automatic extraction from semi-structured websites based on distant supervision. We automatically generate training labels by aligning an existing knowledge base with a web page and leveraging the unique structural characteristics of semi-structured websites. We then train a classifier based on the potentially noisy and incomplete labels to predict new relation instances. Our method can compete with annotation-based techniques in the literature in terms of extraction quality. A large-scale experiment on over 400,000 pages from dozens of multi-lingual long-tail websites harvested 1.25 million facts at a precision of 90%. Comment: Expanded version of paper under review for VLDB |
| Databáze: | arXiv |
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