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Towards Accurate and Consistent Evaluation: A Dataset for Distantly-Supervised Relation Extraction

  • Tong Zhu
  • , Haitao Wang
  • , Junjie Yu
  • , Xiabing Zhou*
  • , Wenliang Chen
  • , Wei Zhang
  • , Min Zhang
  • *Corresponding author for this work
  • Soochow University
  • Alibaba Group Holding Ltd.

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Abstract

In recent years, distantly-supervised relation extraction has achieved a certain success by using deep neural networks. Distant Supervision (DS) can automatically generate large-scale annotated data by aligning entity pairs from Knowledge Bases (KB) to sentences. However, these DS-generated datasets inevitably have wrong labels that result in incorrect evaluation scores during testing, which may mislead the researchers. To solve this problem, we build a new dataset NYT-H, where we use the DS-generated data as training data and hire annotators to label test data. Compared with the previous datasets, NYT-H has a much larger test set and then we can perform more accurate and consistent evaluation. Finally, we present the experimental results of several widely used systems on NYT-H. The experimental results show that the ranking lists of the comparison systems on the DS-labelled test data and human-annotated test data are different. This indicates that our human-annotated data is necessary for evaluation of distantly-supervised relation extraction.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationCOLING 2020 - 28th International Conference on Computational Linguistics, Proceedings of the Conference
EditorsDonia Scott, Nuria Bel, Chengqing Zong
PublisherAssociation for Computational Linguistics (ACL)
Pages6436-6447
Number of pages12
ISBN (Electronic)9781952148279
StatePublished - 2020
Externally publishedYes
Event28th International Conference on Computational Linguistics, COLING 2020 - Virtual, Online, Spain
Duration: 8 Dec 202013 Dec 2020

Publication series

NameCOLING 2020 - 28th International Conference on Computational Linguistics, Proceedings of the Conference

Conference

Conference28th International Conference on Computational Linguistics, COLING 2020
Country/TerritorySpain
CityVirtual, Online
Period8/12/2013/12/20

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