# LightRel SemEval-2018 Task 7: Lightweight and Fast Relation Classification

arXiv: https://arxiv.org/abs/1804.08426 · HTML: https://mlsanity.com/paper/1804.08426/

## Key facts

- Cited by 1 papers in the map (data through 14 Oct 2026).
- First posted on arXiv 19 Apr 2018.

## Built on by (most cited first, 1 of 1)

- [Lightweight Person-Place Relation Extraction from Historical Newspapers with Dependency Graphs and Proximity Features](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2607.19718/) (2026)

## Abstract (arXiv)

We present LightRel, a lightweight and fast relation classifier. Our goal is to develop a high baseline for different relation extraction tasks. By defining only very few data-internal, word-level features and external knowledge sources in the form of word clusters and word embeddings, we train a fast and simple linear classifier.