Distant Supervision for Relation Extraction beyond the Sentence Boundary

Understand

The growing demand for structured knowledge has led to great interest in relation extraction, especially in cases with limited supervision.

• However, existing distance supervision approaches only extract relations expressed in single sentences.
• In general, cross-sentence relation extraction is under-explored, even in the supervised-learning setting.
• In this paper, we propose the first approach for applying distant supervision to cross- sentence relation extraction.