Open Information Extraction Based on Lexical-Syntactic Patterns

Open Information Extraction (Open IE) is an unsupervised strategy to draw out relations from text without predefining these relations, regardless the domain. This paper describes a novel Open IE approach that performs unsupervised extraction of triples by applying a few lexical-syntactic patterns to POS-tagged texts. In order to validate this strategy we developed a prototype and compared its performance with two Open IE systems. The proposed approach achieved promising results, overcoming those from the state-of-the-art systems. The paper concludes with an analysis of errors and directions for future work.