General Collaborative Framework between Large Language Model and Experts for Universal Information Extraction

ACL ARR 2024 April Submission296 Authors

Abstract: Recently, unified information extraction has garnered widespread attention from the NLP community, which aims to use a unified paradigm to perform various information extraction tasks. However, prevalent unified IE approaches inevitably encounter challenges such as noise interference, abstract label semantics, and diverse span granularity. In this paper, we first present three problematic assumptions regarding the capabilities of unified information extraction model. Furthermore, we propose the General Collaborative Information Extraction (GCIE) framework to address these challenges in universal information extraction tasks. Specifically, GCIE consists of a general Recognizer as well as multiple task-specific Experts for recognizing predefined types and extracting spans respectively. The Recognizer is a large language model, while the Experts comprise a series of smaller language models. Together, they collaborate in a two-stage pipeline to perform unified information extraction. Extensive empirical experiments on 6 IE tasks and several datasets, validate the effectiveness and generality of our approach.

Paper Type: Long

Research Area: Information Extraction

Research Area Keywords: Information Extraction

Contribution Types: Model analysis & interpretability, NLP engineering experiment

Languages Studied: English

Submission Number: 296