Denoising Relation Extraction from Document-level Distant Supervision

EMNLP 2020 · Chaojun Xiao, Yuan YAO, Ruobing Xie, Xu Han, Zhiyuan Liu, Maosong Sun, Fen Lin, Leyu Lin ·

Distant supervision (DS) has been widely used to generate auto-labeled data for sentence-level relation extraction (RE), which improves RE performance. However, the existing success of DS cannot be directly transferred to the more challenging document-level relation extraction (DocRE), since the inherent noise in DS may be even multiplied in document level and significantly harm the performance of RE. To address this challenge, we propose a novel pre-trained model for DocRE, which denoises the document-level DS data via multiple pre-training tasks. Experimental results on the large-scale DocRE benchmark show that our model can capture useful information from noisy DS data and achieve promising results.