Haoda Chu


2021

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Learning from Language Description: Low-shot Named Entity Recognition via Decomposed Framework
Yaqing Wang | Haoda Chu | Chao Zhang | Jing Gao
Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2021

In this work, we study the problem of named entity recognition (NER) in a low resource scenario, focusing on few-shot and zero-shot settings. Built upon large-scale pre-trained language models, we propose a novel NER framework, namely SpanNER, which learns from natural language supervision and enables the identification of never-seen entity classes without using in-domain labeled data. We perform extensive experiments on 5 benchmark datasets and evaluate the proposed method in the few-shot learning, domain transfer and zero-shot learning settings. The experimental results show that the proposed method can bring 10%, 23% and 26% improvements in average over the best baselines in few-shot learning, domain transfer and zero-shot learning settings respectively.