Qinghua Chai


2024

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Inference Helps PLMs’ Conceptual Understanding: Improving the Abstract Inference Ability with Hierarchical Conceptual Entailment Graphs
Juncai Li | Ru Li | Xiaoli Li | Qinghua Chai | Jeff Z. Pan
Proceedings of the 2024 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing

The abstract inference capability of the Language Model plays a pivotal role in boosting its generalization and reasoning prowess in Natural Language Inference (NLI). Entailment graphs are crafted precisely for this purpose, focusing on learning entailment relations among predicates. Yet, prevailing approaches overlook the *polysemy* and *hierarchical nature of concepts* during entity conceptualization. This oversight disregards how arguments might entail differently across various concept levels, thereby missing potential entailment connections. To tackle this hurdle, we introduce the *concept pyramid* and propose the HiCon-EG (Hierarchical Conceptual Entailment Graph) framework, which organizes arguments hierarchically, delving into entailment relations at diverse concept levels. By learning entailment relationships at different concept levels, the model is guided to better understand concepts so as to improve its abstract inference capabilities. Our method enhances scalability and efficiency in acquiring common-sense knowledge through leveraging statistical language distribution instead of manual labeling, Experimental results show that entailment relations derived from HiCon-EG significantly bolster abstract detection tasks. Our code is available at https://github.com/SXUCFN/HiCon-EG

2023

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Improving Sequential Model Editing with Fact Retrieval
Xiaoqi Han | Ru Li | Hongye Tan | Wang Yuanlong | Qinghua Chai | Jeff Pan
Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2023

The task of sequential model editing is to fix erroneous knowledge in Pre-trained Language Models (PLMs) efficiently, precisely and continuously. Although existing methods can deal with a small number of modifications, these methods experience a performance decline or require additional annotated data, when the number of edits increases. In this paper, we propose a Retrieval Augmented Sequential Model Editing framework (RASE) that leverages factual information to enhance editing generalization and to guide the identification of edits by retrieving related facts from the fact-patch memory we constructed. Our main findings are: (i) State-of-the-art models can hardly correct massive mistakes stably and efficiently; (ii) Even if we scale up to thousands of edits, RASE can significantly enhance editing generalization and maintain consistent performance and efficiency; (iii) RASE can edit large-scale PLMs and increase the performance of different editors. Moreover, it can integrate with ChatGPT and further improve performance. Our code and data are available at: https://github.com/sev777/RASE.

2021

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A Knowledge-Guided Framework for Frame Identification
Xuefeng Su | Ru Li | Xiaoli Li | Jeff Z. Pan | Hu Zhang | Qinghua Chai | Xiaoqi Han
Proceedings of the 59th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics and the 11th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing (Volume 1: Long Papers)

Frame Identification (FI) is a fundamental and challenging task in frame semantic parsing. The task aims to find the exact frame evoked by a target word in a given sentence. It is generally regarded as a classification task in existing work, where frames are treated as discrete labels or represented using onehot embeddings. However, the valuable knowledge about frames is neglected. In this paper, we propose a Knowledge-Guided Frame Identification framework (KGFI) that integrates three types frame knowledge, including frame definitions, frame elements and frame-to-frame relations, to learn better frame representation, which guides the KGFI to jointly map target words and frames into the same embedding space and subsequently identify the best frame by calculating the dot-product similarity scores between the target word embedding and all of the frame embeddings. The extensive experimental results demonstrate KGFI significantly outperforms the state-of-the-art methods on two benchmark datasets.

2020

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基于Self-Attention的句法感知汉语框架语义角色标注(Syntax-Aware Chinese Frame Semantic Role Labeling Based on Self-Attention)
Xiaohui Wang (王晓晖) | Ru Li (李茹) | Zhiqiang Wang (王智强) | Qinghua Chai (柴清华) | Xiaoqi Han (韩孝奇)
Proceedings of the 19th Chinese National Conference on Computational Linguistics

框架语义角色标注(Frame Semantic Role Labeling, FSRL)是基于FrameNet标注体系的语义分析任务。语义角色标注通常对句法有很强的依赖性,目前的语义角色标注模型大多基于双向长短时记忆网络Bi-LSTM,虽然可以获取句子中的长距离依赖信息,但无法很好获取句子中的句法信息。因此,引入self-attention机制来捕获句子中每个词的句法信息。实验结果表明,该模型在CFN(Chinese FrameNet,汉语框架网)数据集上的F1达到83.77%,提升了近11%。

2015

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Implicit Role Linking on Chinese Discourse: Exploiting Explicit Roles and Frame-to-Frame Relations
Ru Li | Juan Wu | Zhiqiang Wang | Qinghua Chai
Proceedings of the 53rd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics and the 7th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing (Volume 1: Long Papers)