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Abstract

This paper presents a new task of predicting the coverage of a text document
for relation extraction (RE): does the document contain many relational tuples
for a given entity? Coverage predictions are useful in selecting the best
documents for knowledge base construction with large input corpora. To study
this problem, we present a dataset of 31,366 diverse documents for 520
entities. We analyze the correlation of document coverage with features like
length, entity mention frequency, Alexa rank, language complexity and
information retrieval scores. Each of these features has only moderate
predictive power. We employ methods combining features with statistical models
like TF-IDF and language models like BERT. The model combining features and
BERT, HERB, achieves an F1 score of up to 46%. We demonstrate the utility of
coverage predictions on two use cases: KB construction and claim refutation.