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Sixth IEEE International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM'06)
High-Performance Unsupervised Relation Extraction from Large Corpora
Hong Kong
December 18-December 22
ISBN: 0-7695-2701-9
Binjamin Rozenfeld, Bar-Ilan University, Ramat Gan
Ronen Feldman, Bar-Ilan University, Ramat Gan
We present URIES -- an Unsupervised Relation Identification and Extraction system. The system automatically identifies interesting binary relations between entities in the input corpus, and then proceeds to extract a large number of instances of these relations. The system discovers relations by clustering frequently co-occuring pairs of entities, based on the contexts in which they appear. Its complex pattern-based representation of the contexts allows the clustering step to achieve very high precision, sufficient for the clusters to perform as sets of seeds for bootstrapping a high-recall relation extraction process. In a series of experiments we demonstrate the successful performance of URIES and compare it to the two existing systems -- a weakly supervised high-recall Web relation extraction system called SRES, and an unsupervised relation identification system that uses a simpler bag-of-words representation of contexts. The experiments show that URIES performs comparably to SRES, but without any supervision, and that such performance is due to the power of its complex contexts representation and to its novel candidate selection method.
Citation:
Binjamin Rozenfeld, Ronen Feldman, "High-Performance Unsupervised Relation Extraction from Large Corpora," icdm, pp.1032-1037, Sixth IEEE International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM'06), 2006
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