Datasets:
annotations_creators:
- crowdsourced
- expert-generated
language:
- en
language_creators:
- found
license:
- other
multilinguality:
- monolingual
pretty_name: The TAC Relation Extraction Dataset
size_categories:
- 100K<n<1M
source_datasets:
- extended|other
tags:
- relation extraction
task_categories:
- text-classification
task_ids:
- multi-class-classification
Dataset Card for "tacred"
Table of Contents
- Table of Contents
- Dataset Description
- Dataset Structure
- Dataset Creation
- Considerations for Using the Data
- Additional Information
Dataset Description
- Homepage: https://nlp.stanford.edu/projects/tacred
- Paper: Position-aware Attention and Supervised Data Improve Slot Filling
- Point of Contact: See https://nlp.stanford.edu/projects/tacred/
- Size of downloaded dataset files: 62.3 MB
- Size of the generated dataset: 139.2 MB
- Total amount of disk used: 201.5 MB
Dataset Summary
The TAC Relation Extraction Dataset (TACRED) is a large-scale relation extraction dataset with 106,264 examples built over newswire and web text from the corpus used in the yearly TAC Knowledge Base Population (TAC KBP) challenges. Examples in TACRED cover 41 relation types as used in the TAC KBP challenges (e.g., per:schools_attended and org:members) or are labeled as no_relation if no defined relation is held. These examples are created by combining available human annotations from the TAC KBP challenges and crowdsourcing. Please see Stanford's EMNLP paper, or their EMNLP slides for full details.
Note: There is currently a label-corrected version of the TACRED dataset, which you should consider using instead of the original version released in 2017. For more details on this new version, see the TACRED Revisited paper published at ACL 2020.
Supported Tasks and Leaderboards
- Tasks: Relation Classification
- Leaderboards: https://paperswithcode.com/sota/relation-extraction-on-tacred
Languages
The language in the dataset is English.
Dataset Structure
Data Instances
- Size of downloaded dataset files: 62.3 MB
- Size of the generated dataset: 139.2 MB
- Total amount of disk used: 201.5 MB
An example of 'train' looks as follows:
{
"id": "61b3a5c8c9a882dcfcd2",
"docid": "AFP_ENG_20070218.0019.LDC2009T13",
"relation": "org:founded_by",
"token": ["Tom", "Thabane", "resigned", "in", "October", "last", "year", "to", "form", "the", "All", "Basotho", "Convention", "-LRB-", "ABC", "-RRB-", ",", "crossing", "the", "floor", "with", "17", "members", "of", "parliament", ",", "causing", "constitutional", "monarch", "King", "Letsie", "III", "to", "dissolve", "parliament", "and", "call", "the", "snap", "election", "."],
"subj_start": 10,
"subj_end": 13,
"obj_start": 0,
"obj_end": 2,
"subj_type": "ORGANIZATION",
"obj_type": "PERSON",
"stanford_pos": ["NNP", "NNP", "VBD", "IN", "NNP", "JJ", "NN", "TO", "VB", "DT", "DT", "NNP", "NNP", "-LRB-", "NNP", "-RRB-", ",", "VBG", "DT", "NN", "IN", "CD", "NNS", "IN", "NN", ",", "VBG", "JJ", "NN", "NNP", "NNP", "NNP", "TO", "VB", "NN", "CC", "VB", "DT", "NN", "NN", "."],
"stanford_ner": ["PERSON", "PERSON", "O", "O", "DATE", "DATE", "DATE", "O", "O", "O", "O", "O", "O", "O", "ORGANIZATION", "O", "O", "O", "O", "O", "O", "NUMBER", "O", "O", "O", "O", "O", "O", "O", "O", "PERSON", "PERSON", "O", "O", "O", "O", "O", "O", "O", "O", "O"],
"stanford_head": [2, 3, 0, 5, 3, 7, 3, 9, 3, 13, 13, 13, 9, 15, 13, 15, 3, 3, 20, 18, 23, 23, 18, 25, 23, 3, 3, 32, 32, 32, 32, 27, 34, 27, 34, 34, 34, 40, 40, 37, 3],
"stanford_deprel": ["compound", "nsubj", "ROOT", "case", "nmod", "amod", "nmod:tmod", "mark", "xcomp", "det", "compound", "compound", "dobj", "punct", "appos", "punct", "punct", "xcomp", "det", "dobj", "case", "nummod", "nmod", "case", "nmod", "punct", "xcomp", "amod", "compound", "compound", "compound", "dobj", "mark", "xcomp", "dobj", "cc", "conj", "det", "compound", "dobj", "punct"]
}
Data Fields
The data fields are the same among all splits.
id
: the instance id of this sentence, astring
feature.docid
: the TAC KBP document id of this sentence, astring
feature.tokens
: the list of tokens of this sentence, obtained with the StanfordNLP toolkit, alist
ofstring
features.relation
: the relation label of this instance, astring
classification label.subj_start
: the 0-based index of the start token of the relation subject mention, anìnt
feature.subj_end
: the 0-based index of the end token of the relation subject mention, exclusive, anìnt
feature.subj_type
: the NER type of the subject mention, among 23 fine-grained types used in the Stanford NER system, astring
feature.obj_start
: the 0-based index of the start token of the relation object mention, anìnt
feature.obj_end
: the 0-based index of the end token of the relation object mention, exclusive, anìnt
feature.obj_type
: the NER type of the object mention, among 23 fine-grained types used in the Stanford NER system, astring
feature.pos_tags
: the part-of-speech tag per token. the NER type of the subject mention, among 23 fine-grained types used in the Stanford NER system, alist
ofstring
features.ner_tags
: the NER tags of tokens (IO-Scheme), among 23 fine-grained types used in the Stanford NER system, alist
ofstring
features.stanford_deprel
: the Stanford dependency relation tag per token, alist
ofstring
features.stanford_head
: the head (source) token index (0-based) for the dependency relation per token. The root token has a head index of -1, alist
ofint
features.
Data Splits
To miminize dataset bias, TACRED is stratified across years in which the TAC KBP challenge was run:
Train | Dev | Test | |
---|---|---|---|
TACRED | 68,124 (TAC KBP 2009-2012) | 22,631 (TAC KBP 2013) | 15,509 (TAC KBP 2014) |
Dataset Creation
Curation Rationale
[More Information Needed]
Source Data
Initial Data Collection and Normalization
[More Information Needed]
Who are the source language producers?
[More Information Needed]
Annotations
Annotation process
See the Stanford paper and the Tacred Revisited paper, plus their appendices.
To ensure that models trained on TACRED are not biased towards predicting false positives on real-world text, all sampled sentences where no relation was found between the mention pairs were fully annotated to be negative examples. As a result, 79.5% of the examples are labeled as no_relation.
Who are the annotators?
[More Information Needed]
Personal and Sensitive Information
[More Information Needed]
Considerations for Using the Data
Social Impact of Dataset
[More Information Needed]
Discussion of Biases
[More Information Needed]
Other Known Limitations
[More Information Needed]
Additional Information
Dataset Curators
[More Information Needed]
Licensing Information
To respect the copyright of the underlying TAC KBP corpus, TACRED is released via the Linguistic Data Consortium (LDC License). You can download TACRED from the LDC TACRED webpage. If you are an LDC member, the access will be free; otherwise, an access fee of $25 is needed.
Citation Information
The original dataset:
@inproceedings{zhang2017tacred,
author = {Zhang, Yuhao and Zhong, Victor and Chen, Danqi and Angeli, Gabor and Manning, Christopher D.},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the 2017 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP 2017)},
title = {Position-aware Attention and Supervised Data Improve Slot Filling},
url = {https://nlp.stanford.edu/pubs/zhang2017tacred.pdf},
pages = {35--45},
year = {2017}
}
For the revised version, please also cite:
@inproceedings{alt-etal-2020-tacred,
title = "{TACRED} Revisited: A Thorough Evaluation of the {TACRED} Relation Extraction Task",
author = "Alt, Christoph and
Gabryszak, Aleksandra and
Hennig, Leonhard",
booktitle = "Proceedings of the 58th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics",
month = jul,
year = "2020",
address = "Online",
publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
url = "https://www.aclweb.org/anthology/2020.acl-main.142",
doi = "10.18653/v1/2020.acl-main.142",
pages = "1558--1569",
}
Contributions
#Thanks to @github-username for adding this dataset.