PIVOINE: Instruction Tuning for Open-world Entity Profiling

Keming Lu, Xiaoman Pan, Kaiqiang Song, Hongming Zhang, Dong Yu, Jianshu Chen


Abstract
This work considers the problem of Open-world Entity Profiling, a sub-domain of Open-world Information Extraction (Open-world IE). Unlike the conventional closed-world IE, Open-world IE is considered a more general situation where entities and relations could be beyond a predefined ontology. We seek to develop a large language model (LLM) that can perform Open-world Entity Profiling with instruction tuning to extract desirable entity profiles characterized by (possibly fine-grained) natural language instructions. In particular, we construct INSTRUCTOPENWIKI, a substantial instruction-tuning dataset for Open-world Entity Profiling enriched with a comprehensive corpus, extensive annotations, and diverse instructions. We finetune pretrained BLOOM models on INSTRUCTOPENWIKI and obtain PIVOINE, an LLM for Open-world Entity Profiling with strong instruction-following capabilities. Our experiments demonstrate that PIVOINE significantly outperforms traditional methods and ChatGPT-based baselines, displaying impressive generalization capabilities on both unseen instructions and out-of-ontology cases. Consequently, PIVOINE emerges as a promising solution to tackle the open-world challenge of entity profiling.
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2023.findings-emnlp.1009
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Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2023
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December
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2023
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Singapore
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Houda Bouamor, Juan Pino, Kalika Bali
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Findings
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Association for Computational Linguistics
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15108–15127
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https://aclanthology.org/2023.findings-emnlp.1009
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10.18653/v1/2023.findings-emnlp.1009
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Keming Lu, Xiaoman Pan, Kaiqiang Song, Hongming Zhang, Dong Yu, and Jianshu Chen. 2023. PIVOINE: Instruction Tuning for Open-world Entity Profiling. In Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2023, pages 15108–15127, Singapore. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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