UIUC_BioNLP at SemEval-2021 Task 11: A Cascade of Neural Models for Structuring Scholarly NLP Contributions

Haoyang Liu, M. Janina Sarol, Halil Kilicoglu


Abstract
We propose a cascade of neural models that performs sentence classification, phrase recognition, and triple extraction to automatically structure the scholarly contributions of NLP publications. To identify the most important contribution sentences in a paper, we used a BERT-based classifier with positional features (Subtask 1). A BERT-CRF model was used to recognize and characterize relevant phrases in contribution sentences (Subtask 2). We categorized the triples into several types based on whether and how their elements were expressed in text, and addressed each type using separate BERT-based classifiers as well as rules (Subtask 3). Our system was officially ranked second in Phase 1 evaluation and first in both parts of Phase 2 evaluation. After fixing a submission error in Pharse 1, our approach yields the best results overall. In this paper, in addition to a system description, we also provide further analysis of our results, highlighting its strengths and limitations. We make our code publicly available at https://github.com/Liu-Hy/nlp-contrib-graph.
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2021.semeval-1.45
Volume:
Proceedings of the 15th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation (SemEval-2021)
Month:
August
Year:
2021
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Online
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SemEval
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SIGLEX
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Association for Computational Linguistics
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Pages:
377–386
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URL:
https://aclanthology.org/2021.semeval-1.45
DOI:
10.18653/v1/2021.semeval-1.45
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Cite (ACL):
Haoyang Liu, M. Janina Sarol, and Halil Kilicoglu. 2021. UIUC_BioNLP at SemEval-2021 Task 11: A Cascade of Neural Models for Structuring Scholarly NLP Contributions. In Proceedings of the 15th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation (SemEval-2021), pages 377–386, Online. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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UIUC_BioNLP at SemEval-2021 Task 11: A Cascade of Neural Models for Structuring Scholarly NLP Contributions (Liu et al., SemEval 2021)
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Code
 Liu-Hy/nlp-contrib-graph