English

MSnet: A BERT-based Network for Gendered Pronoun Resolution

Computation and Language 2019-08-02 v1 Machine Learning

Abstract

The pre-trained BERT model achieves a remarkable state of the art across a wide range of tasks in natural language processing. For solving the gender bias in gendered pronoun resolution task, I propose a novel neural network model based on the pre-trained BERT. This model is a type of mention score classifier and uses an attention mechanism with no parameters to compute the contextual representation of entity span, and a vector to represent the triple-wise semantic similarity among the pronoun and the entities. In stage 1 of the gendered pronoun resolution task, a variant of this model, trained in the fine-tuning approach, reduced the multi-class logarithmic loss to 0.3033 in the 5-fold cross-validation of training set and 0.2795 in testing set. Besides, this variant won the 2nd place with a score at 0.17289 in stage 2 of the task. The code in this paper is available at: https://github.com/ziliwang/MSnet-for-Gendered-PronounResolution

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Cite

@article{arxiv.1908.00308,
  title  = {MSnet: A BERT-based Network for Gendered Pronoun Resolution},
  author = {Zili Wang},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1908.00308},
  year   = {2019}
}

Comments

7 pages; 1 figures; accepted by 1st ACL Workshop on Gender Bias for NLP at ACL 2019

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