Abstract
Cross-domain Named Entity Recognition (NER) transfers the NER knowledge from high-resource domains to the low-resource target domain. Due to limited labeled resources and domain shift, cross-domain NER is a challenging task. To address these challenges, we propose a progressive domain adaptation Knowledge Distillation (KD) approach – PDALN. It achieves superior domain adaptability by employing three components: (1) Adaptive data augmentation techniques, which alleviate cross-domain gap and label sparsity simultaneously; (2) Multi-level Domain invariant features, derived from a multi-grained MMD (Maximum Mean Discrepancy) approach, to enable knowledge transfer across domains; (3) Advanced KD schema, which progressively enables powerful pre-trained language models to perform domain adaptation. Extensive experiments on four benchmarks show that PDALN can effectively adapt high-resource domains to low-resource target domains, even if they are diverse in terms and writing styles. Comparison with other baselines indicates the state-of-the-art performance of PDALN.- Anthology ID:
- 2021.emnlp-main.442
- Volume:
- Proceedings of the 2021 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing
- Month:
- November
- Year:
- 2021
- Address:
- Online and Punta Cana, Dominican Republic
- Editors:
- Marie-Francine Moens, Xuanjing Huang, Lucia Specia, Scott Wen-tau Yih
- Venue:
- EMNLP
- SIG:
- Publisher:
- Association for Computational Linguistics
- Note:
- Pages:
- 5441–5451
- Language:
- URL:
- https://aclanthology.org/2021.emnlp-main.442
- DOI:
- 10.18653/v1/2021.emnlp-main.442
- Cite (ACL):
- Tao Zhang, Congying Xia, Philip S. Yu, Zhiwei Liu, and Shu Zhao. 2021. PDALN: Progressive Domain Adaptation over a Pre-trained Model for Low-Resource Cross-Domain Named Entity Recognition. In Proceedings of the 2021 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, pages 5441–5451, Online and Punta Cana, Dominican Republic. Association for Computational Linguistics.
- Cite (Informal):
- PDALN: Progressive Domain Adaptation over a Pre-trained Model for Low-Resource Cross-Domain Named Entity Recognition (Zhang et al., EMNLP 2021)
- PDF:
- https://preview.aclanthology.org/nschneid-patch-5/2021.emnlp-main.442.pdf
- Data
- WNUT 2016 NER