Learning from Miscellaneous Other-Class Words for Few-shot Named Entity Recognition
Abstract
Few-shot Named Entity Recognition (NER) exploits only a handful of annotations to identify and classify named entity mentions. Prototypical network shows superior performance on few-shot NER. However, existing prototypical methods fail to differentiate rich semantics in other-class words, which will aggravate overfitting under few shot scenario. To address the issue, we propose a novel model, Mining Undefined Classes from Other-class (MUCO), that can automatically induce different undefined classes from the other class to improve few-shot NER. With these extra-labeled undefined classes, our method will improve the discriminative ability of NER classifier and enhance the understanding of predefined classes with stand-by semantic knowledge. Experimental results demonstrate that our model outperforms five state-of-the-art models in both 1-shot and 5-shots settings on four NER benchmarks. We will release the code upon acceptance. The source code is released on https: //github.com/shuaiwa16/OtherClassNER.git.
Cite
@article{arxiv.2106.15167,
title = {Learning from Miscellaneous Other-Class Words for Few-shot Named Entity Recognition},
author = {Meihan Tong and Shuai Wang and Bin Xu and Yixin Cao and Minghui Liu and Lei Hou and Juanzi Li},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2106.15167},
year = {2021}
}