A Relation-Oriented Model With Global Context Information for Joint Extraction of Overlapping Relations and Entities

The entity relation extraction in the form of triples from unstructured text is a key step for self-learning knowledge graph construction. Two main methods have been proposed to extract relation triples, namely, the pipeline method and the joint learning approach. However, these models do not deal with the overlapping relation problem well. To overcome this challenge, we present a relation-oriented model with global context information for joint entity relation extraction, namely, ROMGCJE, which is an encoder–decoder model. The encoder layer aims to build long-term dependencies among words and capture rich global context representation. Besides, the relation-aware attention mechanism is applied to make use of the relation information to guide the entity detection. The decoder part consists of a multi-relation classifier for the relation classification task, and an improved long short-term memory for the entity recognition task. Finally, the minimum risk training mechanism is introduced to jointly train the model to generate final relation triples. Comprehensive experiments conducted on two public datasets, NYT and WebNLG, show that our model can effectively extract overlapping relation triples and outperforms the current state-of-the-art methods.