Modeling Full Information with Graph Network for Joint Entity-Relation Extraction

Qian Wan, Luona Wei, Xinhai Chen, Jie Liu

Abstract: Fully capturing contextual information and analyzing the association between entity semantics and type is helpful for joint extraction task: 1) The context can reflect the part of speech and semantics of entity. 2) The entity type is closely related to the relation between entities. Previous research used to simply embed the contextual information into shallow layer of the model, ignoring the association between entity semantics and type. In this paper, we propose a graph network with full-information modeling to explicitly model different-level information in the text. The contextual information of entity is dynamically embedded in each span representation to improve the reasoning ability. To capture the fine-grained association between the semantics and type of entity, the graph network uses the feature of entity types to generate edge information between different nodes. Experimental results show that our model outperforms previous models on the CoNLL04 dataset and obtains competitive results on the SciERC dataset in both entity recognition and relation extraction. Extensive additional experiments further verify the effectiveness of the model.