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Text classification tends to be difficult when data are deficient or when it is required to adapt to unseen classes. In such challenging scenarios, recent studies have often used meta-learning to simulate the few-shot task, thus negating…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2019-11-22 Shumin Deng , Ningyu Zhang , Zhanlin Sun , Jiaoyan Chen , Huajun Chen

Teaching machines to recognize a new category based on few training samples especially only one remains challenging owing to the incomprehensive understanding of the novel category caused by the lack of data. However, human can learn new…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-09 Fengyuan Yang , Ruiping Wang , Xilin Chen

As an algorithmic framework for learning to learn, meta-learning provides a promising solution for few-shot text classification. However, most existing research fail to give enough attention to class labels. Traditional basic framework…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-12-16 Guanghua Hou , Shuhui Cao , Deqiang Ouyang , Ning Wang

In document-level relation extraction, entities may appear multiple times in a document, and their relationships can shift from one context to another. Accurate prediction of the relationship between two entities across an entire document…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-08-01 Nilesh , Atul Gupta , Avinash C Panday

Few-shot classification is a challenging task which aims to formulate the ability of humans to learn concepts from limited prior data and has drawn considerable attention in machine learning. Recent progress in few-shot classification has…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-04-14 Meiyu Huang , Xueshuang Xiang , Yao Xu

Current event detection models under super-vised learning settings fail to transfer to newevent types. Few-shot learning has not beenexplored in event detection even though it al-lows a model to perform well with high gener-alization on new…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-06-19 Viet Dac Lai , Franck Dernoncourt , Thien Huu Nguyen

We study few-shot acoustic event detection (AED) in this paper. Few-shot learning enables detection of new events with very limited labeled data. Compared to other research areas like computer vision, few-shot learning for audio recognition…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-02-24 Bowen Shi , Ming Sun , Krishna C. Puvvada , Chieh-Chi Kao , Spyros Matsoukas , Chao Wang

Joint Multimodal Entity-Relation Extraction (JMERE) is a challenging task that aims to extract entities and their relations from text-image pairs in social media posts. Existing methods for JMERE require large amounts of labeled data.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-03-25 Li Yuan , Yi Cai , Junsheng Huang

Knowledge graphs (KGs) have been successfully applied to the analysis of complex scientific and technological domains, with automatic KG generation methods typically building upon relation extraction models capturing fine-grained relations…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-10-15 Vanni Zavarella , Juan Carlos Gamero-Salinas , Sergio Consoli

Relation extraction is the problem of classifying the relationship between two entities in a given sentence. Distant Supervision (DS) is a popular technique for developing relation extractors starting with limited supervision. We note that…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-04-20 Sharmistha Jat , Siddhesh Khandelwal , Partha Talukdar

End-to-end approaches have recently become popular as a means of simplifying the training and deployment of speech recognition systems. However, they often require large amounts of data to perform well on large vocabulary tasks. With the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-03-25 Bertrand Higy , Peter Bell

Few-shot Knowledge Graph (KG) Relational Reasoning aims to predict unseen triplets (i.e., query triplets) for rare relations in KGs, given only several triplets of these relations as references (i.e., support triplets). This task has gained…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-06-25 Haochen Liu , Song Wang , Chen Chen , Jundong Li

Constructing new and more challenging tasksets is a fruitful methodology to analyse and understand few-shot classification methods. Unfortunately, existing approaches to building those tasksets are somewhat unsatisfactory: they either…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-04-16 Sébastien M. R. Arnold , Fei Sha

Few-shot classification refers to learning a classifier for new classes given only a few examples. While a plethora of models have emerged to tackle it, we find the procedure and datasets that are used to assess their progress lacking. To…

In this paper, we explore meta-learning for few-shot text classification. Meta-learning has shown strong performance in computer vision, where low-level patterns are transferable across learning tasks. However, directly applying this…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-02-19 Yujia Bao , Menghua Wu , Shiyu Chang , Regina Barzilay

Electrocardiogram (ECG) interpretation requires specialized expertise, often involving synthesizing insights from ECG signals with complex clinical queries posed in natural language. The scarcity of labeled ECG data coupled with the diverse…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-09 Jialu Tang , Tong Xia , Yuan Lu , Cecilia Mascolo , Aaqib Saeed

Few-shot Knowledge Graph Completion (FKGC) infers missing triples from limited support samples, tackling long-tail distribution challenges. Existing methods, however, struggle to capture complex relational patterns and mitigate data…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-01-22 Zilong Wang , Qingtian Zeng , Hua Duan , Cheng Cheng , Minghao Zou , Ziyang Wang

Relation extraction systems require large amounts of labeled examples which are costly to annotate. In this work we reformulate relation extraction as an entailment task, with simple, hand-made, verbalizations of relations produced in less…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-09-09 Oscar Sainz , Oier Lopez de Lacalle , Gorka Labaka , Ander Barrena , Eneko Agirre

Joint entity and relation extraction is the fundamental task of information extraction, consisting of two subtasks: named entity recognition and relation extraction. However, most existing joint extraction methods suffer from issues of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-03-28 Wenjun Kong , Yamei Xia

Zero-shot entity and relation classification models leverage available external information of unseen classes -- e.g., textual descriptions -- to annotate input text data. Thanks to the minimum data requirement, Zero-Shot Learning (ZSL)…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-06-05 Gabriele Picco , Leopold Fuchs , Marcos Martínez Galindo , Alberto Purpura , Vanessa López , Hoang Thanh Lam