Abstract
Understanding the relations between entities denoted by NPs in a text is a critical part of human-like natural language understanding. However, only a fraction of such relations is covered by standard NLP tasks and benchmarks nowadays. In this work, we propose a novel task termed text-based NP enrichment (TNE), in which we aim to enrich each NP in a text with all the preposition-mediated relations—either explicit or implicit—that hold between it and other NPs in the text. The relations are represented as triplets, each denoted by two NPs related via a preposition. Humans recover such relations seamlessly, while current state-of-the-art models struggle with them due to the implicit nature of the problem. We build the first large-scale dataset for the problem, provide the formal framing and scope of annotation, analyze the data, and report the results of fine-tuned language models on the task, demonstrating the challenge it poses to current technology. A webpage with a data-exploration UI, a demo, and links to the code, models, and leaderboard, to foster further research into this challenging problem can be found at: yanaiela.github.io/TNE/.
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 764-784 |
Number of pages | 21 |
Journal | Transactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics |
Volume | 10 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - 27 Jul 2022 |
All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes
- Communication
- Human-Computer Interaction
- Linguistics and Language
- Computer Science Applications
- Artificial Intelligence