Leadership Alliance · 2018

Weakly-Supervised Multi-Sentence Relation Extraction

We extend Snorkel to cross-sentence relations using multi-sentence dependency paths with far less annotation.

Felipe Felix Arias Alex Ratner Christopher Ré

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign · Stanford University

Snorkel overview diagram

Overview

Weak supervision beyond single sentences.

Most relation extraction models operate on single sentences. We build a multi-sentence dependency heuristic that spans context windows, enabling weak supervision over longer contexts and larger corpora.

Method Sketch

Heuristics and structural signals.

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Queue model
Union heuristic
Heuristic combinations