Prof. Dr. Christina Niklaus

Assistant Professor in Computer Science with focus on “Databases and Data Engineering”


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University of St. Gallen

Institute of Computer Science



Graphene: Semantically-Linked Propositions in Open Information Extraction


Conference paper


Matthias Cetto, Christina Niklaus, André Freitas, Siegfried Handschuh
Proceedings of the 27th International Conference on Computational Linguistics, Association for Computational Linguistics, Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA, 2018 Aug, pp. 2300--2311

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Cetto, M., Niklaus, C., Freitas, A., & Handschuh, S. (2018). Graphene: Semantically-Linked Propositions in Open Information Extraction. In Proceedings of the 27th International Conference on Computational Linguistics (pp. 2300–2311). Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA: Association for Computational Linguistics.


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Cetto, Matthias, Christina Niklaus, André Freitas, and Siegfried Handschuh. “Graphene: Semantically-Linked Propositions in Open Information Extraction.” In Proceedings of the 27th International Conference on Computational Linguistics, 2300–2311. Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA: Association for Computational Linguistics, 2018.


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Cetto, Matthias, et al. “Graphene: Semantically-Linked Propositions in Open Information Extraction.” Proceedings of the 27th International Conference on Computational Linguistics, Association for Computational Linguistics, 2018, pp. 2300–11.


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@inproceedings{cetto2018a,
  title = {Graphene: Semantically-Linked Propositions in Open Information Extraction},
  year = {2018},
  month = aug,
  address = {Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA},
  pages = {2300--2311},
  publisher = {Association for Computational Linguistics},
  author = {Cetto, Matthias and Niklaus, Christina and Freitas, André and Handschuh, Siegfried},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the 27th International Conference on Computational Linguistics},
  month_numeric = {8}
}

Abstract

We present an Open Information Extraction (IE) approach that uses a two-layered transformation stage consisting of a clausal disembedding layer and a phrasal disembedding layer, together with rhetorical relation identification. In that way, we convert sentences that present a complex linguistic structure into simplified, syntactically sound sentences, from which we can extract propositions that are represented in a two-layered hierarchy in the form of core relational tuples and accompanying contextual information which are semantically linked via rhetorical relations. In a comparative evaluation, we demonstrate that our reference implementation Graphene outperforms state-of-the-art Open IE systems in the construction of correct n-ary predicate-argument structures. Moreover, we show that existing Open IE approaches can benefit from the transformation process of our framework.


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