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Article type: Research Article
Authors: Sun, Tingting | Zhang, Chunhong* | Ji, Yang | Hu, Zheng
Affiliations: State Key Laboratory of Networking and Switching Technology, Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, Beijing, China
Correspondence: [*] Corresponding author: Chunhong Zhang, State Key Laboratory of Networking and Switching Technology, Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, Beijing, China. E-mail: zhangch@bupt.edu.cn.
Abstract: Distant supervision for relation extraction aims to automatically obtain a large number of relational facts as training data, but it often leads to noisy label problem. In this paper, we propose a self-directed confidence learning based latent-label denoising method for distantly supervised relation extraction. Concretely, a self-directed algorithm that combines the semantic information of model prediction and distant supervision is designed to predict the confidence score of latent labels. Since this mechanism utilizes the obtained latent labels of easy examples to produce the latent labels of hard examples step by step, it is a robust and reliable learning process. Besides, it facilitates dynamic exploration of the confidence space to achieve better denoising performance. Moreover, to cope with the common imbalance problem in large corpus where the negative instances account for a much larger percentage, we introduce a discriminative loss function to solve the misclassification between non-relational and relational instances. Empirically, in order to verify the generality of the proposed denoising method, we use different neural models – CNN, PCNN and BiLSTM for representation learning. Experimental results show that our method can correct the noisy labels with high accuracy and outperform the state-of-the-art relation extraction systems.
Keywords: Distant supervision, relation extraction, latent label, confidence learning, discriminative loss
DOI: 10.3233/IDA-184414
Journal: Intelligent Data Analysis, vol. 24, no. 1, pp. 101-117, 2020
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