GADePo: Graph-Assisted Declarative Pooling Transformers for Document-Level Relation Extraction

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Main Authors: Coman, Andrei C., Theodoropoulos, Christos, Moens, Marie-Francine, Henderson, James
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Published: 2023
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author Coman, Andrei C.
Theodoropoulos, Christos
Moens, Marie-Francine
Henderson, James
author_facet Coman, Andrei C.
Theodoropoulos, Christos
Moens, Marie-Francine
Henderson, James
contents 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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spellingShingle GADePo: Graph-Assisted Declarative Pooling Transformers for Document-Level Relation Extraction
Coman, Andrei C.
Theodoropoulos, Christos
Moens, Marie-Francine
Henderson, James
Computation and Language
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.
title GADePo: Graph-Assisted Declarative Pooling Transformers for Document-Level Relation Extraction
topic Computation and Language
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2308.14423