Building a Japanese Document-Level Relation Extraction Dataset Assisted by Cross-Lingual Transfer

arXiv:2404.16506v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Document-level Relation Extraction (DocRE) is the task of extracting all semantic relationships from a document. While studies have been conducted on English DocRE, limited attention has been given to DocRE in non-English languages. This work delves into effectively utilizing existing English resources to promote DocRE studies in non-English languages, with Japanese as the representative case. As an initial attempt, we construct a dataset by transferring an English dataset to Japanese. However, models trained on such …

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