semantica/docs/reference/semantic_extract.md

Semantic Extract

Advanced information extraction system for Entities, Relations, Events, and Triples.

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🎯 Overview

• :material-account-search:{ .lg .middle } NER

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  Extract Named Entities (Person, Org, Loc) with confidence scores

• :material-relation-one-to-one:{ .lg .middle } Relation Extraction

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  Identify relationships between entities (e.g., founded_by, located_in)

• :material-calendar-clock:{ .lg .middle } Event Detection

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  Detect events with temporal information and participants

• :material-format-quote-close:{ .lg .middle } Coreference

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  Resolve pronouns ("he", "it") to their entity references

• :material-share-variant:{ .lg .middle } Triple Extraction

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  Extract Subject-Predicate-Object triples for Knowledge Graphs

• :material-robot:{ .lg .middle } LLM Enhancement

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  Use LLMs to improve extraction quality and handle complex schemas

!!! tip "When to Use" - KG Construction: Converting unstructured text into structured graph data - Text Analysis: Identifying key actors and events in documents - Search Indexing: Extracting metadata for faceted search - Data Enrichment: Adding semantic tags to content

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⚙️ Algorithms Used

Named Entity Recognition (NER)

• Transformer Models: BERT/RoBERTa for token classification.
• Regex Patterns: Pattern matching for specific formats (Emails, IDs).
• LLM Prompting: Zero-shot extraction for custom entity types.

Relation Extraction

• Dependency Parsing: Analyzing grammatical structure to find subject-verb-object paths.
• Joint Extraction: Extracting entities and relations simultaneously.
• Semantic Role Labeling: Identifying "Who did What to Whom".

Coreference Resolution

• Mention Detection: Finding all potential references (nouns, pronouns).
• Clustering: Grouping mentions that refer to the same real-world entity.
• Pronoun Resolution: Mapping pronouns to the most likely antecedent.

Triple Extraction

• OpenIE: Open Information Extraction for arbitrary relation strings.
• Schema-Based: Mapping extracted relations to a predefined ontology.
• Reification: Handling complex relations (time, location) by creating event nodes.

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Main Classes

NamedEntityRecognizer

Coordinator for entity extraction.

Parameters:

Parameter	Type	Default	Description
methods	list	["spacy"]	Extraction methods to use
confidence_threshold	float	0.5	Minimum confidence score
merge_overlapping	bool	True	Merge overlapping entities
include_standard_types	bool	True	Include Person, Org, Location

Methods:

Method	Description
extract_entities(text)	Get list of entities
add_custom_pattern(pattern)	Add regex rule

Example:

from semantica.semantic_extract import NamedEntityRecognizer

# Basic usage
ner = NamedEntityRecognizer()
entities = ner.extract_entities("Elon Musk leads SpaceX.")
# [Entity(text="Elon Musk", label="PERSON"), Entity(text="SpaceX", label="ORG")]

# With configuration
ner = NamedEntityRecognizer(
    methods=["spacy", "rule-based"],
    confidence_threshold=0.7,
    merge_overlapping=True
)
entities = ner.extract_entities("Apple Inc. was founded in 1976.")

RelationExtractor

Extracts relationships between entities.

Parameters:

Parameter	Type	Default	Description
relation_types	list	None	Specific relation types to extract
bidirectional	bool	False	Extract bidirectional relations
confidence_threshold	float	0.6	Minimum confidence score
max_distance	int	50	Max token distance between entities

Methods:

Method	Description
extract_relations(text, entities)	Find links

Example:

from semantica.semantic_extract import RelationExtractor, NamedEntityRecognizer

# First extract entities
ner = NamedEntityRecognizer()
text = "Elon Musk founded SpaceX in 2002."
entities = ner.extract_entities(text)

# Basic relation extraction
rel_extractor = RelationExtractor()
relations = rel_extractor.extract_relations(text, entities=entities)
# [Relation(source="Elon Musk", target="SpaceX", type="founded")]

# With configuration
rel_extractor = RelationExtractor(
    relation_types=["founded", "leads", "works_at"],
    confidence_threshold=0.7,
    bidirectional=False
)
relations = rel_extractor.extract_relations(text, entities=entities)

EventDetector

Identifies events with temporal information and participants.

Parameters:

Parameter	Type	Default	Description
event_types	list	None	Specific event types to detect
extract_participants	bool	True	Extract event participants
extract_location	bool	True	Extract event locations
extract_time	bool	True	Extract temporal information

Methods:

Method	Description
detect_events(text)	Find events

Example:

from semantica.semantic_extract import EventDetector

detector = EventDetector(
    event_types=["launch", "acquisition", "announcement"],
    extract_participants=True,
    extract_time=True
)
events = detector.detect_events("SpaceX launched Starship on March 14, 2024.")

TripleExtractor

Extracts RDF triples (Subject-Predicate-Object).

Parameters:

Parameter	Type	Default	Description
include_temporal	bool	False	Include time information
include_provenance	bool	False	Track source sentences

Methods:

Method	Description
extract_triples(text)	Get (S, P, O) tuples

Example:

from semantica.semantic_extract import TripleExtractor

extractor = TripleExtractor(
    include_temporal=True,
    include_provenance=True
)
triples = extractor.extract_triples("Steve Jobs founded Apple in 1976.")
# [Triple(subject="Steve Jobs", predicate="founded", object="Apple", temporal="1976")]

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Usage Examples

from semantica.semantic_extract import (
    NamedEntityRecognizer, 
    RelationExtractor,
    TripleExtractor,
    EventDetector,
    CoreferenceResolver
)

text = "Apple released the iPhone in 2007. Steve Jobs announced it at Macworld."

# Extract entities with confidence filtering
ner = NamedEntityRecognizer(confidence_threshold=0.7)
entities = ner.extract_entities(text)

# Resolve coreferences (recommended before relation extraction)
coref = CoreferenceResolver()
resolved = coref.resolve(text)

# Extract relations
rel_extractor = RelationExtractor(confidence_threshold=0.6)
relations = rel_extractor.extract_relations(text, entities=entities)

# Extract triples for KG
triple_extractor = TripleExtractor(include_temporal=True)
triples = triple_extractor.extract_triples(text)

# Detect events
event_detector = EventDetector(extract_time=True)
events = event_detector.detect_events(text)

print(f"Entities: {len(entities)}")
print(f"Relations: {len(relations)}")
print(f"Triples: {len(triples)}")
print(f"Events: {len(events)}")

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Configuration

Environment Variables

export NER_MODEL=dslim/bert-base-NER
export RELATION_MODEL=semantica/rel-extract-v1
export EXTRACT_CONFIDENCE_THRESHOLD=0.7

YAML Configuration

semantic_extract:
  ner:
    model: dslim/bert-base-NER
    min_confidence: 0.7
    
  relations:
    max_distance: 50 # tokens
    
  coreference:
    enabled: true

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Integration Examples

KG Population Pipeline

from semantica.semantic_extract import NamedEntityRecognizer, RelationExtractor, TripleExtractor
from semantica.kg import GraphBuilder

# 1. Extract
text = "Google was founded by Larry Page and Sergey Brin."
ner = NamedEntityRecognizer()
entities = ner.extract_entities(text)
triple_extractor = TripleExtractor()
triples = triple_extractor.extract_triples(text)

# 2. Populate KG using GraphBuilder
builder = GraphBuilder()
sources = [{
    "entities": entities,
    "relationships": [{"source": t.subject, "target": t.object, "type": t.predicate} for t in triples]
}]
kg = builder.build(sources)

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Best Practices

1. Resolve Coreferences: Always run coreference resolution before relation extraction to link "He" to "John Doe".
2. Filter Low Confidence: Set a confidence threshold (e.g., 0.7) to reduce noise.
3. Use Custom Patterns: For domain-specific IDs (e.g., "Invoice #123"), regex is faster and more accurate than ML.
4. Batch Processing: Use batch methods when processing large corpora.

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See Also

• Parse Module - Prepares text for extraction
• Ontology Module - Defines the schema for extraction
• Knowledge Graph Module - Stores the extracted data

Cookbook

• Entity Extraction
• Relation Extraction
• Advanced Extraction