Learning from Language Description: Low-shot Named Entity Recognition via Decomposed Framework
Learning from Language Description: Low-shot Named Entity Recognition via Decomposed Framework
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DOI:
10.18653/v1/2021.findings-emnlp.139
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2021-09
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Yaqing Wang;Haoda Chu;Chao Zhang;Jing Gao
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作者:
Yaqing Wang;Haoda Chu;Chao Zhang;Jing Gao
In this work, we study the problem of named entity recognition (NER) in a low resource scenario, focusing on few-shot and zero-shot settings. Built upon large-scale pre-trained language models, we propose a novel NER framework, namely SpanNER, which learns from natural language supervision and enables the identification of never-seen entity classes without using in-domain labeled data. We perform extensive experiments on 5 benchmark datasets and evaluate the proposed method in the few-shot learning, domain transfer and zero-shot learning settings. The experimental results show that the proposed method can bring 10%, 23% and 26% improvements in average over the best baselines in few-shot learning, domain transfer and zero-shot learning settings respectively.