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Latent Relation Language Models

Computation and Language 2019-08-22 v1

Abstract

In this paper, we propose Latent Relation Language Models (LRLMs), a class of language models that parameterizes the joint distribution over the words in a document and the entities that occur therein via knowledge graph relations. This model has a number of attractive properties: it not only improves language modeling performance, but is also able to annotate the posterior probability of entity spans for a given text through relations. Experiments demonstrate empirical improvements over both a word-based baseline language model and a previous approach that incorporates knowledge graph information. Qualitative analysis further demonstrates the proposed model's ability to learn to predict appropriate relations in context.

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@article{arxiv.1908.07690,
  title  = {Latent Relation Language Models},
  author = {Hiroaki Hayashi and Zecong Hu and Chenyan Xiong and Graham Neubig},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1908.07690},
  year   = {2019}
}