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48 results for entity labeling

One significant challenge to scaling entity resolution algorithms to massive datasets is understanding how performance changes after moving beyond the realm of small, manually labeled reference datasets. Unlike traditional machine learning tasks, when an entity resolution algorithm performs well on small hold-out datas…

2015-09-10abs ↗pdf ↗

Paper presents a method to train NER models without labelled data using weak supervision.

problem Dealing with NER performance drop in new domains without labelled data.
method Weak supervision through automatic annotation and hidden Markov model integration.
result Improvement of about 7 percentage points in entity-level F1F_1 scores.

The paper introduces uncertainty quantification for NER models.

problem Current NER models lack uncertainty measures, leading to downstream errors.
method Full-Sequence and Subsequence Conformal Prediction framework.
result The method provides formal guarantees about the reliability of model predictions.

In many supervised learning tasks, the entities to be labeled are related to each other in complex ways and their labels are not independent. For example, in hypertext classification, the labels of linked pages are highly correlated. A standard approach is to classify each entity independently, ignoring the correlation…

2012-12-12abs ↗pdf ↗

Recent approaches based on artificial neural networks (ANNs) have shown promising results for named-entity recognition (NER). In order to achieve high performances, ANNs need to be trained on a large labeled dataset. However, labels might be difficult to obtain for the dataset on which the user wants to perform NER: la…

2017-05-17abs ↗pdf ↗

Paper uses user engagement signals to automatically label training data for AI assistants.

problem Lack of annotated training data for AI assistants.
method Leverages user engagement signals for unsupervised entity labeling and data augmentation.
result Significant accuracy gains in sequence labeling tasks and user-facing results.

Proposes a method to improve deep active learning for NER tasks.

problem Weaknesses of existing deep active learning algorithms in practice.
method Estimates error decay curves of feature-defined subsets to improve sampling efficiency and robustness.
result Significantly outperforms diversification-based methods for black-box NER taggers and makes sampling more robust to labeling noise.

CURE extracts relations without supervision by clustering similar entity pairs.

problem Extracting relations unsupervised without considering sentence correlations.
method CURE uses Encoder-Decoder architecture for self-supervised learning and clustering similar relations.
result CURE outperforms state-of-the-art models on NYT and UNPC datasets.

Usually considered as a classification problem, entity resolution (ER) can be very challenging on real data due to the prevalence of dirty values. The state-of-the-art solutions for ER were built on a variety of learning models (most notably deep neural networks), which require lots of accurately labeled training data.…

2018-10-29abs ↗pdf ↗

The paper extends influence functions to sequence tagging tasks for better model interpretability.

problem Lack of interpretability methods for sequence tagging models.
method Define and compute influence of training instance segments on test segment predictions.
result The segment influence method tracks with true influence and identifies annotation errors.

VB-Score evaluates AI systems without ground truth, revealing robustness.

problem Evaluating AI systems without ground truth labels, especially for entity-centric tasks.
method VB-Score uses variance-bounded evaluation, constraint relaxation, and Monte Carlo sampling.
result VB-Score reveals robustness differences not seen by conventional frameworks.

DIAL learns embeddings to maximize recall and accuracy for entity resolution.

problem Low resource settings for entity resolution with large Cartesian product search space.
method DIAL uses an Index-By-Committee framework with pre-trained transformer language models to jointly learn embeddings for recall and accuracy.
result DIAL achieves high precision, recall, and efficiency on benchmark datasets.

Data de-duplication is the task of detecting multiple records that correspond to the same real-world entity in a database. In this work, we view de-duplication as a clustering problem where the goal is to put records corresponding to the same physical entity in the same cluster and putting records corresponding to diff…

2018-10-10abs ↗pdf ↗

Paper proposes a novel model to improve n-ary cross-sentence relation extraction by addressing noisy data and non-consecutive sentences.

problem Noisy labeled data and non-consecutive sentences in n-ary cross-sentence relation extraction.
method Two-level agent reinforcement learning model and hybrid attention mechanism/PCNN approach.
result The model reduces the impact of noisy data and achieves better performance.

A multi-task learning model for slot tagging in biomedical domains.

problem Limited labeled data, memory constraints, and domain-specific slot types.
method Multi-task learning using deep bidirectional transformers.
result Outperforms previous state-of-the-art systems in efficiency and effectiveness.

State-of-the-art sequence labeling systems traditionally require large amounts of task-specific knowledge in the form of hand-crafted features and data pre-processing. In this paper, we introduce a novel neutral network architecture that benefits from both word- and character-level representations automatically, by usi…

2016-03-04abs ↗pdf ↗

We study the problem of large scale, multi-label visual recognition with a large number of possible classes. We propose a method for augmenting a trained neural network classifier with auxiliary capacity in a manner designed to significantly improve upon an already well-performing model, while minimally impacting its c…

2014-12-20abs ↗pdf ↗

Paper proposes a reinforcement learning framework for distant supervision of question parsing.

problem Lack of gold annotations for parsing in QA datasets.
method Reinforcement learning framework based on formal queries to learn mentions of entities and relations.
result Significant improvement in entity and relation linking compared to state of the art.

Algorithm constructs prediction sets with PAC guarantees in label shift settings.

problem Reliable uncertainty quantification in the face of distribution shift.
method Estimates predicted probabilities and confusion matrix, then propagates uncertainty through Gaussian elimination to compute confidence intervals and construct prediction sets.
result Satisfies PAC guarantees and produces smaller, more informative prediction sets.

Entity relatedness has emerged as an important feature in a plethora of applications such as information retrieval, entity recommendation and entity linking. Given an entity, for instance a person or an organization, entity relatedness measures can be exploited for generating a list of highly-related entities. However,…

2018-10-23abs ↗pdf ↗

The paper introduces a method to measure the benefits of incidental supervision signals.

problem Lack of a principled way to measure the benefits of various types of incidental supervision signals.
method Unified PAC-Bayesian motivated informativeness measure, PABI.
result Demonstrates PABI's effectiveness in quantifying the value added by various types of incidental signals.

In domains such as health care and finance, shortage of labeled data and computational resources is a critical issue while developing machine learning algorithms. To address the issue of labeled data scarcity in training and deployment of neural network-based systems, we propose a new technique to train deep neural net…

2018-10-14abs ↗pdf ↗

Existing relation classification methods that rely on distant supervision assume that a bag of sentences mentioning an entity pair are all describing a relation for the entity pair. Such methods, performing classification at the bag level, cannot identify the mapping between a relation and a sentence, and largely suffe…

2018-08-24abs ↗pdf ↗

Measuring entity relatedness is a fundamental task for many natural language processing and information retrieval applications. Prior work often studies entity relatedness in static settings and an unsupervised manner. However, entities in real-world are often involved in many different relationships, consequently enti…

2018-08-24abs ↗pdf ↗

Survey on ML advances for personalized prediction considering entity characteristics.

problem Sub-optimal performance in personalized prediction due to heterogeneity in data across entities.
method Organized current literature on entity-aware modeling based on characteristics availability and training data amount.
result Recent innovations in uncertainty quantification, fairness, and knowledge-guided machine learning can improve entity-aware modeling.

Neural language models are a powerful tool to embed words into semantic vector spaces. However, learning such models generally relies on the availability of abundant and diverse training examples. In highly specialised domains this requirement may not be met due to difficulties in obtaining a large corpus, or the limit…

2015-10-01abs ↗pdf ↗