Distantly-Supervised Named Entity Recognition with Noise-Robust Learning and Language Model Augmented Self-Training
We study the problem of training named entity recognition (NER) models using only distantly-labeled data, which can be automatically obtained by matching entity mentions in the raw text with entity types in a knowledge base. The biggest challenge of distantly-supervised NER is that the distant supervision may induce incomplete and noisy labels, rendering the straightforward application of supervised learning ineffective. In this paper, we propose (1) a noise-robust learning scheme comprised of a new loss function and a noisy label removal step, for training NER models on distantly-labeled data, and (2) a self-training method that uses contextualized augmentations created by pre-trained language models to improve the generalization ability of the NER model. On three benchmark datasets, our method achieves superior performance, outperforming existing distantly-supervised NER models by significant margins.
Code (1)
Tasks
Language ModelingLanguage Modellingnamed-entity-recognitionNamed Entity RecognitionNamed Entity Recognition (NER)NERSimilar Papers 제목 키워드 기반
MProto: Multi-Prototype Network with Denoised Optimal Transport for Distantly Supervised Named Entity Recognition
Distantly supervised named entity recognition (DS-NER) aims to locate entity mentions and classify their types with only knowledge bases or gazetteers and unlabeled corpus. However, distant annotations are noisy and degr…
named-entity-recognitionNamed Entity RecognitionNERSANTA: Separate Strategies for Inaccurate and Incomplete Annotation Noise in Distantly-Supervised Named Entity Recognition
Distantly-Supervised Named Entity Recognition effectively alleviates the burden of time-consuming and expensive annotation in the supervised setting. But the context-free matching process and the limited coverage of know…
named-entity-recognitionNamed Entity RecognitionLabel Refinement via Contrastive Learning for Distantly-Supervised Named Entity Recognition
Distantly-supervised named entity recognition (NER) locates and classifies entities using only knowledge bases and unlabeled corpus to mitigate the reliance on human-annotated labels. The distantly annotated data suffer …
Contrastive Learningnamed-entity-recognitionNamed Entity RecognitionNamed Entity Recognition (NER)+1Denoising Distantly Supervised Named Entity Recognition via a Hypergeometric Probabilistic Model
Denoising is the essential step for distant supervision based named entity recognition. Previous denoising methods are mostly based on instance-level confidence statistics, which ignore the variety of the underlying nois…
Denoisingnamed-entity-recognitionNamed Entity RecognitionNamed Entity Recognition (NER)+1Improving Distantly-Supervised Named Entity Recognition with Self-Collaborative Denoising Learning
Distantly supervised named entity recognition (DS-NER) efficiently reduces labor costs but meanwhile intrinsically suffers from the label noise due to the strong assumption of distant supervision. Typically, the wrongly …
Denoisingnamed-entity-recognitionNamed Entity RecognitionNamed Entity Recognition (NER)+1