Capturing semantic features to improve Chinese event detection

Current Chinese event detection methods commonly use word embedding to capture semantic representation,but these methods find it difficult to capture the dependence relationship between the trigger words and other words in the same sentence.Based on the simple evaluation,it is known that a dependency parser can effectively capture dependency relationships and improve the accuracy of event categorisation.This study proposes a novel architecture that models a hybrid representation to summarise semantic and structural information from both characters and words.This model can capture rich semantic features for the event detection task by incorporating the semantic representation generated from the dependency parser.The authors evaluate different models on kbp 2017 corpus.The experimental results show that the proposed method can significantly improve performance in Chinese event detection.

Few-shot Named Entity Recognition with Joint Token and Sentence Awareness

Few-shot learning has been proposed and rapidly emerging as a viable means for completing various tasks.Recently,few-shot models have been used for Named Entity Recognition(NER).Prototypical network shows high efficiency on few-shot NER.However,existing prototypical methods only consider the similarity of tokens in query sets and support sets and ignore the semantic similarity among the sentences which contain these entities.We present a novel model,Few-shot Named Entity Recognition with Joint Token and Sentence Awareness(JTSA),to address the issue.The sentence awareness is introduced to probe the semantic similarity among the sentences.The Token awareness is used to explore the similarity of the tokens.To further improve the robustness and results of the model,we adopt the joint learning scheme on the few-shot NER.Experimental results demonstrate that our model outperforms state-of-the-art models on two standard Fewshot NER datasets.

Ensemble Making Few-Shot Learning Stronger

Few-shot learning has been proposed and rapidly emerging as a viable means for completing various tasks.Many few-shot models have been widely used for relation learning tasks.However,each of these models has a shortage of capturing a certain aspect of semantic features,for example,CNN on long-range dependencies part,Transformer on local features.It is difficult for a single model to adapt to various relation learning,which results in a high variance problem.Ensemble strategy could be competitive in improving the accuracy of few-shot relation extraction and mitigating high variance risks.This paper explores an ensemble approach to reduce the variance and introduces fine-tuning and feature attention strategies to calibrate relation-level features.Results on several few-shot relation learning tasks show that our model significantly outperforms the previous state-of-the-art models.