Mengdi Zhou
2023
CoMave: Contrastive Pre-training with Multi-scale Masking for Attribute Value Extraction
Xinnan Guo
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Wentao Deng
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Yongrui Chen
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Yang Li
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Mengdi Zhou
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Guilin Qi
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Tianxing Wu
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Dong Yang
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Liubin Wang
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Yong Pan
Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2023
Attribute Value Extraction (AVE) aims to automatically obtain attribute value pairs from product descriptions to aid e-commerce. Despite the progressive performance of existing approaches in e-commerce platforms, they still suffer from two challenges: 1) difficulty in identifying values at different scales simultaneously; 2) easy confusion by some highly similar fine-grained attributes. This paper proposes a pre-training technique for AVE to address these issues. In particular, we first improve the conventional token-level masking strategy, guiding the language model to understand multi-scale values by recovering spans at the phrase and sentence level. Second, we apply clustering to build a challenging negative set for each example and design a pre-training objective based on contrastive learning to force the model to discriminate similar attributes. Comprehensive experiments show that our solution provides a significant improvement over traditional pre-trained models in the AVE task, and achieves state-of-the-art on four benchmarks.
2021
A Dialogue-based Information Extraction System for Medical Insurance Assessment
Shuang Peng
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Mengdi Zhou
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Minghui Yang
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Haitao Mi
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Shaosheng Cao
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Zujie Wen
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Teng Xu
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Hongbin Wang
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Lei Liu
Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL-IJCNLP 2021