Zero-Shot Information Extraction as a Unified Text-to-Triple Translation

EMNLP 2021  ยท  Chenguang Wang, Xiao Liu, Zui Chen, Haoyun Hong, Jie Tang, Dawn Song ยท

We cast a suite of information extraction tasks into a text-to-triple translation framework. Instead of solving each task relying on task-specific datasets and models, we formalize the task as a translation between task-specific input text and output triples. By taking the task-specific input, we enable a task-agnostic translation by leveraging the latent knowledge that a pre-trained language model has about the task. We further demonstrate that a simple pre-training task of predicting which relational information corresponds to which input text is an effective way to produce task-specific outputs. This enables the zero-shot transfer of our framework to downstream tasks. We study the zero-shot performance of this framework on open information extraction (OIE2016, NYT, WEB, PENN), relation classification (FewRel and TACRED), and factual probe (Google-RE and T-REx). The model transfers non-trivially to most tasks and is often competitive with a fully supervised method without the need for any task-specific training. For instance, we significantly outperform the F1 score of the supervised open information extraction without needing to use its training set.

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 Ranked #1 on Open Information Extraction on OIE2016 (using extra training data)

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Task Dataset Model Metric Name Metric Value Global Rank Uses Extra
Training Data
Result Benchmark
Relation Classification FewRel DeepEx (zero-shot top-10) F1 92.9 # 2
Relation Classification FewRel DeepEx (zero-shot top-1) F1 48.8 # 1
Open Information Extraction NYT DeepEx (zero-shot) F1 85.5 # 4
AUC 72.5 # 1
Open Information Extraction OIE2016 DeepEx (zero-shot) F1 72.6 # 1
AUC 58.6 # 1
Open Information Extraction Penn Treebank DeepEx (zero-shot) F1 88.5 # 3
AUC 81.5 # 1
Relation Classification TACRED DeepEx (zero-shot top-10) F1 76.4 # 16
Relation Classification TACRED DeepEx (zero-shot top-1) F1 49.2 # 2
Open Information Extraction Web DeepEx (zero-shot) F1 91.2 # 4
AUC 82.4 # 1

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