Abstract
We introduce N-LTP, an open-source neural language technology platform supporting six fundamental Chinese NLP tasks: lexical analysis (Chinese word segmentation, part-of-speech tagging, and named entity recognition), syntactic parsing (dependency parsing), and semantic parsing (semantic dependency parsing and semantic role labeling). Unlike the existing state-of-the-art toolkits, such as Stanza, that adopt an independent model for each task, N-LTP adopts the multi-task framework by using a shared pre-trained model, which has the advantage of capturing the shared knowledge across relevant Chinese tasks. In addition, a knowledge distillation method (Clark et al., 2019) where the single-task model teaches the multi-task model is further introduced to encourage the multi-task model to surpass its single-task teacher. Finally, we provide a collection of easy-to-use APIs and a visualization tool to make users to use and view the processing results more easily and directly. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first toolkit to support six Chinese NLP fundamental tasks. Source code, documentation, and pre-trained models are available at https://github.com/HIT-SCIR/ltp.- Anthology ID:
- 2021.emnlp-demo.6
- Volume:
- Proceedings of the 2021 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing: System Demonstrations
- Month:
- November
- Year:
- 2021
- Address:
- Online and Punta Cana, Dominican Republic
- Editors:
- Heike Adel, Shuming Shi
- Venue:
- EMNLP
- SIG:
- Publisher:
- Association for Computational Linguistics
- Note:
- Pages:
- 42–49
- Language:
- URL:
- https://aclanthology.org/2021.emnlp-demo.6
- DOI:
- 10.18653/v1/2021.emnlp-demo.6
- Cite (ACL):
- Wanxiang Che, Yunlong Feng, Libo Qin, and Ting Liu. 2021. N-LTP: An Open-source Neural Language Technology Platform for Chinese. In Proceedings of the 2021 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing: System Demonstrations, pages 42–49, Online and Punta Cana, Dominican Republic. Association for Computational Linguistics.
- Cite (Informal):
- N-LTP: An Open-source Neural Language Technology Platform for Chinese (Che et al., EMNLP 2021)
- PDF:
- https://preview.aclanthology.org/improve-issue-templates/2021.emnlp-demo.6.pdf
- Code
- HIT-SCIR/ltp