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Prompt-Based Metric Learning for Few-Shot NER

Computation and Language 2022-11-09 v1

Abstract

Few-shot named entity recognition (NER) targets generalizing to unseen labels and/or domains with few labeled examples. Existing metric learning methods compute token-level similarities between query and support sets, but are not able to fully incorporate label semantics into modeling. To address this issue, we propose a simple method to largely improve metric learning for NER: 1) multiple prompt schemas are designed to enhance label semantics; 2) we propose a novel architecture to effectively combine multiple prompt-based representations. Empirically, our method achieves new state-of-the-art (SOTA) results under 16 of the 18 considered settings, substantially outperforming the previous SOTA by an average of 8.84% and a maximum of 34.51% in relative gains of micro F1. Our code is available at https://github.com/AChen-qaq/ProML.

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@article{arxiv.2211.04337,
  title  = {Prompt-Based Metric Learning for Few-Shot NER},
  author = {Yanru Chen and Yanan Zheng and Zhilin Yang},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2211.04337},
  year   = {2022}
}
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