MANNER: A Variational Memory-Augmented Model for Cross Domain Few-Shot Named Entity Recognition
Jinyuan Fang, Xiaobin Wang, Zaiqiao Meng, Pengjun Xie, Fei Huang, Yong Jiang
Abstract
This paper focuses on the task of cross domain few-shot named entity recognition (NER), which aims to adapt the knowledge learned from source domain to recognize named entities in target domain with only a few labeled examples. To address this challenging task, we propose MANNER, a variational memory-augmented few-shot NER model. Specifically, MANNER uses a memory module to store information from the source domain and then retrieve relevant information from the memory to augment few-shot task in the target domain. In order to effectively utilize the information from memory, MANNER uses optimal transport to retrieve and process information from memory, which can explicitly adapt the retrieved information from source domain to target domain and improve the performance in the cross domain few-shot setting. We conduct experiments on English and Chinese cross domain few-shot NER datasets, and the experimental results demonstrate that MANNER can achieve superior performance.- Anthology ID:
- 2023.acl-long.234
- Volume:
- Proceedings of the 61st Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers)
- Month:
- July
- Year:
- 2023
- Address:
- Toronto, Canada
- Editors:
- Anna Rogers, Jordan Boyd-Graber, Naoaki Okazaki
- Venue:
- ACL
- SIG:
- Publisher:
- Association for Computational Linguistics
- Note:
- Pages:
- 4261–4276
- Language:
- URL:
- https://aclanthology.org/2023.acl-long.234
- DOI:
- 10.18653/v1/2023.acl-long.234
- Cite (ACL):
- Jinyuan Fang, Xiaobin Wang, Zaiqiao Meng, Pengjun Xie, Fei Huang, and Yong Jiang. 2023. MANNER: A Variational Memory-Augmented Model for Cross Domain Few-Shot Named Entity Recognition. In Proceedings of the 61st Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers), pages 4261–4276, Toronto, Canada. Association for Computational Linguistics.
- Cite (Informal):
- MANNER: A Variational Memory-Augmented Model for Cross Domain Few-Shot Named Entity Recognition (Fang et al., ACL 2023)
- PDF:
- https://preview.aclanthology.org/emnlp-22-attachments/2023.acl-long.234.pdf