KGGCN: Knowledge-Guided Graph Convolutional Networks for Distantly Supervised Relation Extraction

Autor: Ningyi Mao, Wenti Huang, Hai Zhong
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2021
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Zdroj: Applied Sciences, Vol 11, Iss 16, p 7734 (2021)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 11167734
2076-3417
DOI: 10.3390/app11167734
Popis: Distantly supervised relation extraction is the most popular technique for identifying semantic relation between two entities. Most prior models only focus on the supervision information present in training sentences. In addition to training sentences, external lexical resource and knowledge graphs often contain other relevant prior knowledge. However, relation extraction models usually ignore such readily available information. Moreover, previous works only utilize a selective attention mechanism over sentences to alleviate the impact of noise, they lack the consideration of the implicit interaction between sentences with relation facts. In this paper, (1) a knowledge-guided graph convolutional network is proposed based on the word-level attention mechanism to encode the sentences. It can capture the key words and cue phrases to generate expressive sentence-level features by attending to the relation indicators obtained from the external lexical resource. (2) A knowledge-guided sentence selector is proposed, which explores the semantic and structural information of triples from knowledge graph as sentence-level knowledge attention to distinguish the importance of each individual sentence. Experimental results on two widely used datasets, NYT-FB and GDS, show that our approach is able to efficiently use the prior knowledge from the external lexical resource and knowledge graph to enhance the performance of distantly supervised relation extraction.
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