Joint extraction method for entity relations from mineral resources reports integrating dependency parsing and improved graph convolutional networks

• Published in: Ore geology reviews Vol. 182; p. 106640
• Main Authors: Qiu, Qinjun, Jin, Xiangguo, Tian, Miao, Wu, Qirui, Tao, Liufeng, Chen, Jianguo, Xie, Zhong
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Elsevier B.V 01.07.2025
• Subjects: Dependent syntax; Geological entity relation extraction; Geological knowledge graph; Geological survey report; Graph convolutional network; Geological survey report; Geological knowledge graph; Graph convolutional network; Geological entity relation extraction; Dependent syntax
• ISSN: 0169-1368
• DOI: 10.1016/j.oregeorev.2025.106640

[Display omitted] •Propose a GCN entity relationship joint extraction model based on dependency syntax analysis.•Propose a GCN with stacked pointer networks to address long entity and overlapping entity.•Propose the use of the axial attention mechanism and BiLSTM model to effectively capture contextual semantic features. Geological reports, as crucial technical documents reflecting the outcomes of geological survey work, encapsulate extensive expert and domain knowledge. Geological knowledge graphs integrate vast amounts of data, facilitating efficient and rapid extraction of knowledge embedded within geoscientific data. The extraction of geological entity relations is a key method in creating these knowledge graphs. Existing techniques for extracting geological entities and their relations encounter difficulties such entity overlap, relation overlap, and the challenge of obtaining deep semantic information because of the vastness and complexity of geological data. Our study suggests a collaborative extraction model for entity relations that integrates dependency syntactic relations with a graph convolutional network (GCN) in order to address these problems. This model learns dependency syntactic structures and deep semantic information by building a GCN that includes dependency syntactic relations. A pointer network decoder is then added to increase entity relation extraction efficiency. Dependencies between words in a phrase, such as subject-verb and verb-object relations, are revealed via dependency syntactic analysis. By structuring these dependencies into a graph, the model captures syntactic structural information. Through operations involving adjacency matrices and feature matrices, the model effectively propagates and aggregates node information, thereby capturing the global dependency syntactic structure and deep semantic information of sentences. The integration of dependency syntactic relations with GCN processing enables the model to more accurately comprehend entity relations within sentences. Results from experiments show that this model successfully tackles problems like overlapping entity relations and the challenge of gleaning deep semantic information from geological texts. It achieves a 79.73% accuracy rate and a 77.98% F1 score on geological text datasets.