Learning from Language Description: Low-shot Named Entity Recognition via Decomposed Framework

09/11/2021

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by   Yaqing Wang, et al.

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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 few-shot learning, domain transfer and zero-shot learning settings respectively.