Sciweavers

EMNLP
2011

Identifying Relations for Open Information Extraction

12 years 3 months ago
Identifying Relations for Open Information Extraction
Open Information Extraction (IE) is the task of extracting assertions from massive corpora without requiring a pre-specified vocabulary. This paper shows that the output of state-ofthe-art Open IE systems is rife with uninformative and incoherent extractions. To overcome these problems, we introduce two simple syntactic and lexical constraints on binary relations expressed by verbs. We implemented the constraints in the REVERB Open IE system, which more than doubles the area under the precision-recall curve relative to previous extractors such as TEXTRUNNER and WOEpos . More than 30% of REVERB’s extractions are at precision 0.8 or higher— compared to virtually none for earlier systems. The paper concludes with a detailed analysis of REVERB’s errors, suggesting directions for future work.1
Anthony Fader, Stephen Soderland, Oren Etzioni
Added 20 Dec 2011
Updated 20 Dec 2011
Type Journal
Year 2011
Where EMNLP
Authors Anthony Fader, Stephen Soderland, Oren Etzioni
Comments (0)