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    "title": "Modeling Commonality among Related Classes in Relation Extraction",
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    "abstract": "This paper proposes a novel hierarchical learning strategy to deal with the data sparseness problem in relation extraction by modeling the commonality among related classes. For each class in the hierarchy either manually predefined or automatically clustered, a linear discriminative function is determined in a topdown way using a perceptron algorithm with the lower-level weight vector derived from the upper-level weight vector. As the upper-level class normally has much more positive training examples than the lower-level class, the corresponding linear discriminative function can be determined more reliably. The upperlevel discriminative function then can effectively guide the discriminative function learning in the lower-level, which otherwise might suffer from limited training data. Evaluation on the ACE RDC 2003 corpus shows that the hierarchical strategy much improves the performance by 5.6 and 5.1 in F-measure on least-and medium-frequent relations respectively. It also shows that our system outperforms the previous best-reported system by 2.7 in F-measure on the 24 subtypes using the same feature set.",
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                "text": "This paper proposes a novel hierarchical learning strategy to deal with the data sparseness problem in relation extraction by modeling the commonality among related classes. For each class in the hierarchy either manually predefined or automatically clustered, a linear discriminative function is determined in a topdown way using a perceptron algorithm with the lower-level weight vector derived from the upper-level weight vector. As the upper-level class normally has much more positive training examples than the lower-level class, the corresponding linear discriminative function can be determined more reliably. The upperlevel discriminative function then can effectively guide the discriminative function learning in the lower-level, which otherwise might suffer from limited training data. Evaluation on the ACE RDC 2003 corpus shows that the hierarchical strategy much improves the performance by 5.6 and 5.1 in F-measure on least-and medium-frequent relations respectively. It also shows that our system outperforms the previous best-reported system by 2.7 in F-measure on the 24 subtypes using the same feature set.",
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                "text": "With the dramatic increase in the amount of textual information available in digital archives and the WWW, there has been growing interest in techniques for automatically extracting information from text. Information Extraction (IE) is such a technology that IE systems are expected to identify relevant information (usually of predefined types) from text documents in a certain domain and put them in a structured format.",
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                "text": "According to the scope of the ACE program (ACE 2000 (ACE -2005 , current research in IE has three main objectives: Entity Detection and Tracking (EDT), Relation Detection and Characterization (RDC), and Event Detection and Characterization (EDC). This paper will focus on the ACE RDC task, which detects and classifies various semantic relations between two entities. For example, we want to determine whether a person is at a location, based on the evidence in the context. Extraction of semantic relationships between entities can be very useful for applications such as question answering, e.g. to answer the query \"Who is the president of the United States?\".",
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                "text": "One major challenge in relation extraction is due to the data sparseness problem (Zhou et al 2005) . As the largest annotated corpus in relation extraction, the ACE RDC 2003 corpus shows that different subtypes/types of relations are much unevenly distributed and a few relation subtypes, such as the subtype \"Founder\" under the type \"ROLE\", suffers from a small amount of annotated data. Further experimentation in this paper (please see Figure 2 ) shows that most relation subtypes suffer from the lack of the training data and fail to achieve steady performance given the current corpus size. Given the relative large size of this corpus, it will be time-consuming and very expensive to further expand the corpus with a reasonable gain in performance. Even if we can somehow expend the corpus and achieve steady performance on major relation subtypes, it will be still far beyond practice for those minor subtypes given the much unevenly distribution among different relation subtypes. While various machine learning approaches, such as generative modeling (Miller et al 2000) , maximum entropy (Kambhatla 2004) and support vector machines (Zhao and Grisman 2005; Zhou et al 2005) , have been applied in the relation extraction task, no explicit learning strategy is proposed to deal with the inherent data sparseness problem caused by the much uneven distribution among different relations.",
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                "text": "The relation extraction task was formulated at MUC-7(1998) . With the increasing popularity of ACE, this task is starting to attract more and more researchers within the natural language processing and machine learning communities. Typical works include Miller et al (2000) , Zelenko et al (2003) , Culotta and Sorensen (2004) , Bunescu and Mooney (2005a) , Bunescu and Mooney (2005b) , Zhang et al (2005) , Roth and Yih (2002) , Kambhatla (2004) , Zhao and Grisman (2005) and Zhou et al (2005) . Miller et al (2000) augmented syntactic full parse trees with semantic information of entities and relations, and built generative models to integrate various tasks such as POS tagging, named entity recognition, template element extraction and relation extraction. The problem is that such integration may impose big challenges, e.g. the need of a large annotated corpus. To overcome the data sparseness problem, generative models typically applied some smoothing techniques to integrate different scales of contexts in parameter estimation, e.g. the back-off approach in Miller et al (2000) . Zelenko et al (2003) proposed extracting relations by computing kernel functions between parse trees. Culotta and Sorensen (2004) extended this work to estimate kernel functions between augmented dependency trees and achieved Fmeasure of 45.8 on the 5 relation types in the ACE RDC 2003 corpus 1 . Bunescu and Mooney (2005a) proposed a shortest path dependency kernel. They argued that the information to model a relationship between two entities can be typically captured by the shortest path between them in the dependency graph. It achieved the Fmeasure of 52.5 on the 5 relation types in the ACE RDC 2003 corpus. Bunescu and Mooney (2005b) proposed a subsequence kernel and ap-plied it in protein interaction and ACE relation extraction tasks. Zhang et al (2005) adopted clustering algorithms in unsupervised relation extraction using tree kernels. To overcome the data sparseness problem, various scales of sub-trees are applied in the tree kernel computation. Although tree kernel-based approaches are able to explore the huge implicit feature space without much feature engineering, further research work is necessary to make them effective and efficient.",
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                "text": "In the future work, we will explore the hierarchical learning strategy using other machine learning approaches besides online classifier learning approaches such as the simple perceptron algorithm applied in this paper. Moreover, just as indicated in Figure 2 , most relation subtypes in the ACE RDC 2003 corpus (arguably the largest annotated corpus in relation extraction) suffer from the lack of training examples. Therefore, a critical research in relation extraction is how to rely on semi-supervised learning approaches (e.g. bootstrap) to alleviate its dependency on a large amount of annotated training examples and achieve better and steadier performance. Finally, our current work is done when NER has been perfectly done. Therefore, it would be interesting to see how imperfect NER affects the performance in relation extraction. This will be done by integrating the relation extraction system with our previously developed NER system as described in Zhou and Su (2002) .",
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