Zero-Shot Information Extraction as a Unified Text-to-Triple Translation

This paper frames information extraction as a triple generation problem. They pre-train a BERT encoder using contrastive pre-training to maximize the similarity between a sentence and a triple in it. This encoder is fine-tuned to generate triples and rank these triples. Their model show very strong performance against several baselines.

Comments

  • Idea is good but the writing needs some improvements.

we aim to search for the sequences (e.g., “is a graduate of”) with the largest attention scores connecting the pair

  • How does the attention work exactly? What do you mean by “scores connecting the pair”. Is your decoder autoregressive?
  • Too many questions remaining. I can’t fully understand this paper.
Rating
  • 5: Transformative: This paper is likely to change our field. It should be considered for a best paper award.
  • 4.5: Exciting: It changed my thinking on this topic. I would fight for it to be accepted.
  • 4: Strong: I learned a lot from it. I would like to see it accepted.
  • 3.5: Leaning positive: It can be accepted more or less in its current form. However, the work it describes is not particularly exciting and/or inspiring, so it will not be a big loss if people don’t see it in this conference.
  • 3: Ambivalent: It has merits (e.g., it reports state-of-the-art results, the idea is nice), but there are key weaknesses (e.g., I didn’t learn much from it, evaluation is not convincing, it describes incremental work). I believe it can significantly benefit from another round of revision, but I won’t object to accepting it if my co-reviewers are willing to champion it.
  • 2.5: Leaning negative: I am leaning towards rejection, but I can be persuaded if my co-reviewers think otherwise.
  • 2: Mediocre: I would rather not see it in the conference.
  • 1.5: Weak: I am pretty confident that it should be rejected.
  • 1: Poor: I would fight to have it rejected.

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https://aclanthology.org/2021.emnlp-main.94/