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GADePo: Graph-Assisted Declarative Pooling Transformers for Document-Level Relation Extraction
Type of publication: Conference paper
Citation: Coman_PROCEEDINGSOFTHE3RDWORKSHOPONKNOWLEDGEAUGMENTEDMETHODSFORNLP_2024
Publication status: Published
Booktitle: Proceedings of the 3rd Workshop on Knowledge Augmented Methods for NLP
Year: 2024
Publisher: Association for Computational Linguistics
URL: https://aclanthology.org/2024....
DOI: https://doi.org/10.18653/v1/2024.knowledgenlp-1.1
Abstract: Document-level relation extraction typically relies on text-based encoders and hand-coded pooling heuristics to aggregate information learned by the encoder. In this paper, we leverage the intrinsic graph processing capabilities of the Transformer model and propose replacing hand-coded pooling methods with new tokens in the input, which are designed to aggregate information via explicit graph relations in the computation of attention weights. We introduce a joint text-graph Transformer model and a graph-assisted declarative pooling (GADePo) specification of the input, which provides explicit and high-level instructions for information aggregation. GADePo allows the pooling process to be guided by domain-specific knowledge or desired outcomes but still learned by the Transformer, leading to more flexible and customisable pooling strategies. We evaluate our method across diverse datasets and models and show that our approach yields promising results that are consistently better than those achieved by the hand-coded pooling functions.
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Projects Idiap
NKBP
Authors Coman, Andrei Catalin
Theodoropoulos, Christos
Moens, Marie-Francine
Henderson, James
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