Global-to-Local Neural Networks for Document-Level Relation Extraction (2020.emnlp-main)
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| Challenge: | Relation extraction (RE) aims to identify the semantic relations between named entities in text. |
| Approach: | They propose a novel relation extraction model that encodes document information in terms of entity global and local representations and context relation representations. |
| Outcome: | The proposed model achieves superior performance on two public datasets for document-level RE. |
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