Bin Ji¹, Hao Xu¹, Jie Yu¹, Shasha Li¹, Jun Ma¹, Yuke Ji^2,*, Huijun Liu¹

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.74, No.1, pp. 1303-1318, 2023, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2023.032168

Abstract An exhaustive study has been conducted to investigate span-based models for the joint entity and relation extraction task. However, these models sample a large number of negative entities and negative relations during the model training, which are essential but result in grossly imbalanced data distributions and in turn cause suboptimal model performance. In order to address the above issues, we propose a two-phase paradigm for the span-based joint entity and relation extraction, which involves classifying the entities and relations in the first phase, and predicting the types of these entities and relations in the second phase. The two-phase paradigm enables… More >

Kun Ding¹, Shanshan Liu¹, Yuhao Zhang², Hui Zhang¹, Xiaoxiong Zhang^1,*, Tongtong Wu^2,3, Xiaolei Zhou¹

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.68, No.1, pp. 377-389, 2021, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2021.016301

Abstract The joint extraction of entities and their relations from certain texts plays a significant role in most natural language processes. For entity and relation extraction in a specific domain, we propose a hybrid neural framework consisting of two parts: a span-based model and a graph-based model. The span-based model can tackle overlapping problems compared with BILOU methods, whereas the graph-based model treats relation prediction as graph classification. Our main contribution is to incorporate external lexical and syntactic knowledge of a specific domain, such as domain dictionaries and dependency structures from texts, into end-to-end neural models. We conducted extensive experiments on… More >