Classification of Conversational Sentences Using an Ensemble Pre-Trained Language Model with the Fine-Tuned Parameter

Sentence classification is the process of categorizing a sentence based on the context of the sentence.Sentence categorization requires more semantic highlights than other tasks,such as dependence parsing,which requires more syntactic elements.Most existing strategies focus on the general semantics of a conversation without involving the context of the sentence,recognizing the progress and comparing impacts.An ensemble pre-trained language model was taken up here to classify the conversation sentences from the conversation corpus.The conversational sentences are classified into four categories:information,question,directive,and commission.These classification label sequences are for analyzing the conversation progress and predicting the pecking order of the conversation.Ensemble of Bidirectional Encoder for Representation of Transformer(BERT),Robustly Optimized BERT pretraining Approach(RoBERTa),Generative Pre-Trained Transformer(GPT),DistilBERT and Generalized Autoregressive Pretraining for Language Understanding(XLNet)models are trained on conversation corpus with hyperparameters.Hyperparameter tuning approach is carried out for better performance on sentence classification.This Ensemble of Pre-trained Language Models with a Hyperparameter Tuning(EPLM-HT)system is trained on an annotated conversation dataset.The proposed approach outperformed compared to the base BERT,GPT,DistilBERT and XLNet transformer models.The proposed ensemble model with the fine-tuned parameters achieved an F1_score of 0.88.

Leveraging Vision-Language Pre-Trained Model and Contrastive Learning for Enhanced Multimodal Sentiment Analysis

Multimodal sentiment analysis is an essential area of research in artificial intelligence that combines multiple modes,such as text and image,to accurately assess sentiment.However,conventional approaches that rely on unimodal pre-trained models for feature extraction from each modality often overlook the intrinsic connections of semantic information between modalities.This limitation is attributed to their training on unimodal data,and necessitates the use of complex fusion mechanisms for sentiment analysis.In this study,we present a novel approach that combines a vision-language pre-trained model with a proposed multimodal contrastive learning method.Our approach harnesses the power of transfer learning by utilizing a vision-language pre-trained model to extract both visual and textual representations in a unified framework.We employ a Transformer architecture to integrate these representations,thereby enabling the capture of rich semantic infor-mation in image-text pairs.To further enhance the representation learning of these pairs,we introduce our proposed multimodal contrastive learning method,which leads to improved performance in sentiment analysis tasks.Our approach is evaluated through extensive experiments on two publicly accessible datasets,where we demonstrate its effectiveness.We achieve a significant improvement in sentiment analysis accuracy,indicating the supe-riority of our approach over existing techniques.These results highlight the potential of multimodal sentiment analysis and underscore the importance of considering the intrinsic semantic connections between modalities for accurate sentiment assessment.

Unsupervised statistical text simplification using pre-trained language modeling for initialization

Unsupervised text simplification has attracted much attention due to the scarcity of high-quality parallel text simplification corpora. Recent an unsupervised statistical text simplification based on phrase-based machine translation system (UnsupPBMT) achieved good performance, which initializes the phrase tables using the similar words obtained by word embedding modeling. Since word embedding modeling only considers the relevance between words, the phrase table in UnsupPBMT contains a lot of dissimilar words. In this paper, we propose an unsupervised statistical text simplification using pre-trained language modeling BERT for initialization. Specifically, we use BERT as a general linguistic knowledge base for predicting similar words. Experimental results show that our method outperforms the state-of-the-art unsupervised text simplification methods on three benchmarks, even outperforms some supervised baselines.

Vision Enhanced Generative Pre-trained Language Model for Multimodal Sentence Summarization

Multimodal sentence summarization(MMSS)is a new yet challenging task that aims to generate a concise summary of a long sentence and its corresponding image.Although existing methods have gained promising success in MMSS,they overlook the powerful generation ability of generative pre-trained language models(GPLMs),which have shown to be effective in many text generation tasks.To fill this research gap,we propose to using GPLMs to promote the performance of MMSS.Notably,adopting GPLMs to solve MMSS inevitably faces two challenges:1)What fusion strategy should we use to inject visual information into GPLMs properly?2)How to keep the GPLM′s generation ability intact to the utmost extent when the visual feature is injected into the GPLM.To address these two challenges,we propose a vision enhanced generative pre-trained language model for MMSS,dubbed as Vision-GPLM.In Vision-GPLM,we obtain features of visual and textual modalities with two separate encoders and utilize a text decoder to produce a summary.In particular,we utilize multi-head attention to fuse the features extracted from visual and textual modalities to inject the visual feature into the GPLM.Meanwhile,we train Vision-GPLM in two stages:the vision-oriented pre-training stage and fine-tuning stage.In the vision-oriented pre-training stage,we particularly train the visual encoder by the masked language model task while the other components are frozen,aiming to obtain homogeneous representations of text and image.In the fine-tuning stage,we train all the components of Vision-GPLM by the MMSS task.Extensive experiments on a public MMSS dataset verify the superiority of our model over existing baselines.

Improving Extraction of Chinese Open Relations Using Pre-trained Language Model and Knowledge Enhancement

Open Relation Extraction(ORE)is a task of extracting semantic relations from a text document.Current ORE systems have significantly improved their efficiency in obtaining Chinese relations,when compared with conventional systems which heavily depend on feature engineering or syntactic parsing.However,the ORE systems do not use robust neural networks such as pre-trained language models to take advantage of large-scale unstructured data effectively.In respons to this issue,a new system entitled Chinese Open Relation Extraction with Knowledge Enhancement(CORE-KE)is presented in this paper.The CORE-KE system employs a pre-trained language model(with the support of a Bidirectional Long Short-Term Memory(BiLSTM)layer and a Masked Conditional Random Field(Masked CRF)layer)on unstructured data in order to improve Chinese open relation extraction.Entity descriptions in Wikidata and additional knowledge(in terms of triple facts)extracted from Chinese ORE datasets are used to fine-tune the pre-trained language model.In addition,syntactic features are further adopted in the training stage of the CORE-KE system for knowledge enhancement.Experimental results of the CORE-KE system on two large-scale datasets of open Chinese entities and relations demonstrate that the CORE-KE system is superior to other ORE systems.The F1-scores of the CORE-KE system on the two datasets have given a relative improvement of 20.1%and 1.3%,when compared with benchmark ORE systems,respectively.The source code is available at https:/github.COm/cjwen15/CORE-KE.

The Life Cycle of Knowledge in Big Language Models:A Survey

Knowledge plays a critical role in artificial intelligence.Recently,the extensive success of pre-trained language models(PLMs)has raised significant attention about how knowledge can be acquired,maintained,updated and used by language models.Despite the enormous amount of related studies,there is still a lack of a unified view of how knowledge circulates within language models throughout the learning,tuning,and application processes,which may prevent us from further understanding the connections between current progress or realizing existing limitations.In this survey,we revisit PLMs as knowledge-based systems by dividing the life circle of knowledge in PLMs into five critical periods,and investigating how knowledge circulates when it is built,maintained and used.To this end,we systematically review existing studies of each period of the knowledge life cycle,summarize the main challenges and current limitations,and discuss future directions.

Vulnerability Detection of Ethereum Smart Contract Based on SolBERT-BiGRU-Attention Hybrid Neural Model

In recent years,with the great success of pre-trained language models,the pre-trained BERT model has been gradually applied to the field of source code understanding.However,the time cost of training a language model from zero is very high,and how to transfer the pre-trained language model to the field of smart contract vulnerability detection is a hot research direction at present.In this paper,we propose a hybrid model to detect common vulnerabilities in smart contracts based on a lightweight pre-trained languagemodel BERT and connected to a bidirectional gate recurrent unitmodel.The downstream neural network adopts the bidirectional gate recurrent unit neural network model with a hierarchical attention mechanism to mine more semantic features contained in the source code of smart contracts by using their characteristics.Our experiments show that our proposed hybrid neural network model SolBERT-BiGRU-Attention is fitted by a large number of data samples with smart contract vulnerabilities,and it is found that compared with the existing methods,the accuracy of our model can reach 93.85%,and the Micro-F1 Score is 94.02%.

A PERT-BiLSTM-Att Model for Online Public Opinion Text Sentiment Analysis

As an essential category of public event management and control,sentiment analysis of online public opinion text plays a vital role in public opinion early warning,network rumor management,and netizens’person-ality portraits under massive public opinion data.The traditional sentiment analysis model is not sensitive to the location information of words,it is difficult to solve the problem of polysemy,and the learning representation ability of long and short sentences is very different,which leads to the low accuracy of sentiment classification.This paper proposes a sentiment analysis model PERT-BiLSTM-Att for public opinion text based on the pre-training model of the disordered language model,bidirectional long-term and short-term memory network and attention mechanism.The model first uses the PERT model pre-trained from the lexical location information of a large amount of corpus to process the text data and obtain the dynamic feature representation of the text.Then the semantic features are input into BiLSTM to learn context sequence information and enhance the model’s ability to represent long sequences.Finally,the attention mechanism is used to focus on the words that contribute more to the overall emotional tendency to make up for the lack of short text representation ability of the traditional model,and then the classification results are output through the fully connected network.The experimental results show that the classification accuracy of the model on NLPCC14 and weibo_senti_100k public data sets reach 88.56%and 97.05%,respectively,and the accuracy reaches 95.95%on the data set MDC22 composed of Meituan,Dianping and Ctrip comment.It proves that the model has a good effect on sentiment analysis of online public opinion texts on different platforms.The experimental results on different datasets verify the model’s effectiveness in applying sentiment analysis of texts.At the same time,the model has a strong generalization ability and can achieve good results for sentiment analysis of datasets in different fields.

Pre-trained models for natural language processing: A survey

Recently, the emergence of pre-trained models(PTMs) has brought natural language processing(NLP) to a new era. In this survey, we provide a comprehensive review of PTMs for NLP. We first briefly introduce language representation learning and its research progress. Then we systematically categorize existing PTMs based on a taxonomy from four different perspectives. Next,we describe how to adapt the knowledge of PTMs to downstream tasks. Finally, we outline some potential directions of PTMs for future research. This survey is purposed to be a hands-on guide for understanding, using, and developing PTMs for various NLP tasks.

Satellite and instrument entity recognition using a pre-trained language model with distant supervision

Earth observations,especially satellite data,have produced a wealth of methods and results in meeting global challenges,often presented in unstructured texts such as papers or reports.Accurate extraction of satellite and instrument entities from these unstructured texts can help to link and reuse Earth observation resources.The direct use of an existing dictionary to extract satellite and instrument entities suffers from the problem of poor matching,which leads to low recall.In this study,we present a named entity recognition model to automatically extract satellite and instrument entities from unstructured texts.Due to the lack of manually labeled data,we apply distant supervision to automatically generate labeled training data.Accordingly,we fine-tune the pre-trained language model with early stopping and a weighted cross-entropy loss function.We propose the dictionary-based self-training method to correct the incomplete annotations caused by the distant supervision method.Experiments demonstrate that our method achieves significant improvements in both precision and recall compared to dictionary matching or standard adaptation of pre-trained language models.

Medical Named Entity Recognition from Un-labelled Medical Records based on Pre-trained Language Models and Domain Dictionary

Medical named entity recognition(NER)is an area in which medical named entities are recognized from medical texts,such as diseases,drugs,surgery reports,anatomical parts,and examination documents.Conventional medical NER methods do not make full use of un-labelled medical texts embedded in medical documents.To address this issue,we proposed a medical NER approach based on pre-trained language models and a domain dictionary.First,we constructed a medical entity dictionary by extracting medical entities from labelled medical texts and collecting medical entities from other resources,such as the YiduN4 K data set.Second,we employed this dictionary to train domain-specific pre-trained language models using un-labelled medical texts.Third,we employed a pseudo labelling mechanism in un-labelled medical texts to automatically annotate texts and create pseudo labels.Fourth,the BiLSTM-CRF sequence tagging model was used to fine-tune the pre-trained language models.Our experiments on the un-labelled medical texts,which were extracted from Chinese electronic medical records,show that the proposed NER approach enables the strict and relaxed F1 scores to be 88.7%and 95.3%,respectively.

Personality Trait Detection via Transfer Learning

Personality recognition plays a pivotal role when developing user-centric solutions such as recommender systems or decision support systems across various domains,including education,e-commerce,or human resources.Tra-ditional machine learning techniques have been broadly employed for personality trait identification;nevertheless,the development of new technologies based on deep learning has led to new opportunities to improve their performance.This study focuses on the capabilities of pre-trained language models such as BERT,RoBERTa,ALBERT,ELECTRA,ERNIE,or XLNet,to deal with the task of personality recognition.These models are able to capture structural features from textual content and comprehend a multitude of language facets and complex features such as hierarchical relationships or long-term dependencies.This makes them suitable to classify multi-label personality traits from reviews while mitigating computational costs.The focus of this approach centers on developing an architecture based on different layers able to capture the semantic context and structural features from texts.Moreover,it is able to fine-tune the previous models using the MyPersonality dataset,which comprises 9,917 status updates contributed by 250 Facebook users.These status updates are categorized according to the well-known Big Five personality model,setting the stage for a comprehensive exploration of personality traits.To test the proposal,a set of experiments have been performed using different metrics such as the exact match ratio,hamming loss,zero-one-loss,precision,recall,F1-score,and weighted averages.The results reveal ERNIE is the top-performing model,achieving an exact match ratio of 72.32%,an accuracy rate of 87.17%,and 84.41%of F1-score.The findings demonstrate that the tested models substantially outperform other state-of-the-art studies,enhancing the accuracy by at least 3%and confirming them as powerful tools for personality recognition.These findings represent substantial advancements in personality recognition,making them appropriate for the development of user-centric applications.

May ChatGPT be a tool producing medical information for common inflammatory bowel disease patients’questions?An evidencecontrolled analysis

Artificial intelligence is increasingly entering everyday healthcare.Large language model(LLM)systems such as Chat Generative Pre-trained Transformer(ChatGPT)have become potentially accessible to everyone,including patients with inflammatory bowel diseases(IBD).However,significant ethical issues and pitfalls exist in innovative LLM tools.The hype generated by such systems may lead to unweighted patient trust in these systems.Therefore,it is necessary to understand whether LLMs(trendy ones,such as ChatGPT)can produce plausible medical information(MI)for patients.This review examined ChatGPT’s potential to provide MI regarding questions commonly addressed by patients with IBD to their gastroenterologists.From the review of the outputs provided by ChatGPT,this tool showed some attractive potential while having significant limitations in updating and detailing information and providing inaccurate information in some cases.Further studies and refinement of the ChatGPT,possibly aligning the outputs with the leading medical evidence provided by reliable databases,are needed.

Red Alarm for Pre-trained Models:Universal Vulnerability to Neuron-level Backdoor Attacks

The pre-training-then-fine-tuning paradigm has been widely used in deep learning.Due to the huge computation cost for pre-training,practitioners usually download pre-trained models from the Internet and fine-tune them on downstream datasets,while the downloaded models may suffer backdoor attacks.Different from previous attacks aiming at a target task,we show that a backdoored pre-trained model can behave maliciously in various downstream tasks without foreknowing task information.Attackers can restrict the output representations(the values of output neurons)of trigger-embedded samples to arbitrary predefined values through additional training,namely neuron-level backdoor attack(NeuBA).Since fine-tuning has little effect on model parameters,the fine-tuned model will retain the backdoor functionality and predict a specific label for the samples embedded with the same trigger.To provoke multiple labels in a specific task,attackers can introduce several triggers with predefined contrastive values.In the experiments of both natural language processing(NLP)and computer vision(CV),we show that NeuBA can well control the predictions for trigger-embedded instances with different trigger designs.Our findings sound a red alarm for the wide use of pre-trained models.Finally,we apply several defense methods to NeuBA and find that model pruning is a promising technique to resist NeuBA by omitting backdoored neurons.

DynamicRetriever:A Pre-trained Model-based IR System Without an Explicit Index

Web search provides a promising way for people to obtain information and has been extensively studied.With the surge of deep learning and large-scale pre-training techniques,various neural information retrieval models are proposed,and they have demonstrated the power for improving search(especially,the ranking)quality.All these existing search methods follow a common paradigm,i.e.,index-retrieve-rerank,where they first build an index of all documents based on document terms(i.e.,sparse inverted index)or representation vectors(i.e.,dense vector index),then retrieve and rerank retrieved documents based on the similarity between the query and documents via ranking models.In this paper,we explore a new paradigm of information retrieval without an explicit index but only with a pre-trained model.Instead,all of the knowledge of the documents is encoded into model parameters,which can be regarded as a differentiable indexer and optimized in an end-to-end manner.Specifically,we propose a pre-trained model-based information retrieval(IR)system called DynamicRetriever,which directly returns document identifiers for a given query.Under such a framework,we implement two variants to explore how to train the model from scratch and how to combine the advantages of dense retrieval models.Compared with existing search methods,the model-based IR system parameterizes the traditional static index with a pre-training model,which converts the document semantic mapping into a dynamic and updatable process.Extensive experiments conducted on the public search benchmark Microsoft machine reading comprehension(MS MARCO)verify the effectiveness and potential of our proposed new paradigm for information retrieval.

Embedding Extraction for Arabic Text Using the AraBERT Model

Nowadays,we can use the multi-task learning approach to train a machine-learning algorithm to learn multiple related tasks instead of training it to solve a single task.In this work,we propose an algorithm for estimating textual similarity scores and then use these scores in multiple tasks such as text ranking,essay grading,and question answering systems.We used several vectorization schemes to represent the Arabic texts in the SemEval2017-task3-subtask-D dataset.The used schemes include lexical-based similarity features,frequency-based features,and pre-trained model-based features.Also,we used contextual-based embedding models such as Arabic Bidirectional Encoder Representations from Transformers(AraBERT).We used the AraBERT model in two different variants.First,as a feature extractor in addition to the text vectorization schemes’features.We fed those features to various regression models to make a prediction value that represents the relevancy score between Arabic text units.Second,AraBERT is adopted as a pre-trained model,and its parameters are fine-tuned to estimate the relevancy scores between Arabic textual sentences.To evaluate the research results,we conducted several experiments to compare the use of the AraBERT model in its two variants.In terms of Mean Absolute Percentage Error(MAPE),the results showminor variance between AraBERT v0.2 as a feature extractor(21.7723)and the fine-tuned AraBERT v2(21.8211).On the other hand,AraBERT v0.2-Large as a feature extractor outperforms the finetuned AraBERT v2 model on the used data set in terms of the coefficient of determination(R2)values(0.014050,−0.032861),respectively.

Paradigm Shift in Natural Language Processing

In the era of deep learning, modeling for most natural language processing (NLP) tasks has converged into several mainstream paradigms. For example, we usually adopt the sequence labeling paradigm to solve a bundle of tasks such as POS-tagging, named entity recognition (NER), and chunking, and adopt the classification paradigm to solve tasks like sentiment analysis. With the rapid progress of pre-trained language models, recent years have witnessed a rising trend of paradigm shift, which is solving one NLP task in a new paradigm by reformulating the task. The paradigm shift has achieved great success on many tasks and is becoming a promising way to improve model performance. Moreover, some of these paradigms have shown great potential to unify a large number of NLP tasks, making it possible to build a single model to handle diverse tasks. In this paper, we review such phenomenon of paradigm shifts in recent years, highlighting several paradigms that have the potential to solve different NLP tasks.

EVA2.0:Investigating Open-domain Chinese Dialogue Systems with Large-scale Pre-training

Large-scale pre-training has shown remarkable performance in building open-domain dialogue systems.However,previous works mainly focus on showing and evaluating the conversational performance of the released dialogue model,ignoring the discussion of some key factors towards a powerful human-like chatbot,especially in Chinese scenarios.In this paper,we conduct extensive experiments to investigate these under-explored factors,including data quality control,model architecture designs,training approaches,and decoding strategies.We propose EVA2.0,a large-scale pre-trained open-domain Chinese dialogue model with 2.8 billion parameters,and will make our models and codes publicly available.Automatic and human evaluations show that EVA2.0 significantly outperforms other open-source counterparts.We also discuss the limitations of this work by presenting some failure cases and pose some future research directions on large-scale Chinese open-domain dialogue systems.

Improving BERT Fine-Tuning via Self-Ensemble and Self-Distillation

Fine-tuning pre-trained language models like BERT have become an effective way in natural language processing(NLP)and yield state-of-the-art results on many downstream tasks.Recent studies on adapting BERT to new tasks mainly focus on modifying the model structure,re-designing the pre-training tasks,and leveraging external data and knowledge.The fine-tuning strategy itself has yet to be fully explored.In this paper,we improve the fine-tuning of BERT with two effective mechanisms:self-ensemble and self-distillation.The self-ensemble mechanism utilizes the checkpoints from an experience pool to integrate the teacher model.In order to transfer knowledge from the teacher model to the student model efficiently,we further use knowledge distillation,which is called self-distillation because the distillation comes from the model itself through the time dimension.Experiments on the GLUE benchmark and the Text Classification benchmark show that our proposed approach can significantly improve the adaption of BERT without any external data or knowledge.We conduct exhaustive experiments to investigate the efficiency of the self-ensemble and self-distillation mechanisms,and our proposed approach achieves a new state-of-the-art result on the SNLI dataset.

EPT:Data Augmentation with Embedded Prompt Tuning for LowResource Named Entity Recognition

Data augmentation methods are often used to address data scarcity in natural language processing(NLP).However,token-label misalignment,which refers to situations where tokens are matched with incorrect entity labels in the augmented sentences,hinders the data augmentation methods from achieving high scores in token-level tasks like named entity recognition(NER).In this paper,we propose embedded prompt tuning(EPT)as a novel data augmentation approach to low-resource NER.To address the problem of token-label misalignment,we implicitly embed NER labels as prompt into the hidden layer of pre-trained language model,and therefore entity tokens masked can be predicted by the finetuned EPT.Hence,EPT can generate high-quality and high-diverse data with various entities,which improves performance of NER.As datasets of cross-domain NER are available,we also explore NER domain adaption with EPT.The experimental results show that EPT achieves substantial improvement over the baseline methods on low-resource NER tasks.