Xinnian Mao

Also published as: Xin Mao


2021

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From Alignment to Assignment: Frustratingly Simple Unsupervised Entity Alignment
Xin Mao | Wenting Wang | Yuanbin Wu | Man Lan
Proceedings of the 2021 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing

Cross-lingual entity alignment (EA) aims to find the equivalent entities between crosslingual KGs (Knowledge Graphs), which is a crucial step for integrating KGs. Recently, many GNN-based EA methods are proposed and show decent performance improvements on several public datasets. However, existing GNN-based EA methods inevitably inherit poor interpretability and low efficiency from neural networks. Motivated by the isomorphic assumption of GNN-based methods, we successfully transform the cross-lingual EA problem into an assignment problem. Based on this re-definition, we propose a frustratingly Simple but Effective Unsupervised entity alignment method (SEU) without neural networks. Extensive experiments have been conducted to show that our proposed unsupervised approach even beats advanced supervised methods across all public datasets while having high efficiency, interpretability, and stability.

2019

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Scaling up Open Tagging from Tens to Thousands: Comprehension Empowered Attribute Value Extraction from Product Title
Huimin Xu | Wenting Wang | Xin Mao | Xinyu Jiang | Man Lan
Proceedings of the 57th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics

Supplementing product information by extracting attribute values from title is a crucial task in e-Commerce domain. Previous studies treat each attribute only as an entity type and build one set of NER tags (e.g., BIO) for each of them, leading to a scalability issue which unfits to the large sized attribute system in real world e-Commerce. In this work, we propose a novel approach to support value extraction scaling up to thousands of attributes without losing performance: (1) We propose to regard attribute as a query and adopt only one global set of BIO tags for any attributes to reduce the burden of attribute tag or model explosion; (2) We explicitly model the semantic representations for attribute and title, and develop an attention mechanism to capture the interactive semantic relations in-between to enforce our framework to be attribute comprehensive. We conduct extensive experiments in real-life datasets. The results show that our model not only outperforms existing state-of-the-art NER tagging models, but also is robust and generates promising results for up to 8,906 attributes.

2018

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ECNU at SemEval-2018 Task 2: Leverage Traditional NLP Features and Neural Networks Methods to Address Twitter Emoji Prediction Task
Xingwu Lu | Xin Mao | Man Lan | Yuanbin Wu
Proceedings of The 12th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation

This paper describes our submissions to Task 2 in SemEval 2018, i.e., Multilingual Emoji Prediction. We first investigate several traditional Natural Language Processing (NLP) features, and then design several deep learning models. For subtask 1: Emoji Prediction in English, we combine two different methods to represent tweet, i.e., supervised model using traditional features and deep learning model. For subtask 2: Emoji Prediction in Spanish, we only use deep learning model.

2008

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Chinese Word Segmentation and Named Entity Recognition Based on Conditional Random Fields
Xinnian Mao | Yuan Dong | Saike He | Sencheng Bao | Haila Wang
Proceedings of the Sixth SIGHAN Workshop on Chinese Language Processing

2007

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Using Non-Local Features to Improve Named Entity Recognition Recall
Xinnian Mao | Wei Xu | Yuan Dong | Saike He | Haila Wang
Proceedings of the 21st Pacific Asia Conference on Language, Information and Computation

2005

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Chinese Word Segmentation in FTRD Beijing
Heng Li | Yuan Dong | Xinnian Mao | Haila Wang | Wu Liu
Proceedings of the Fourth SIGHAN Workshop on Chinese Language Processing