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Text classification is a fundamental Natural Language Processing task that has a wide variety of applications, where deep learning approaches have produced state-of-the-art results. While these models have been heavily criticized for their…
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Recent work on enhancing BERT-based language representation models with knowledge graphs (KGs) and knowledge bases (KBs) has yielded promising results on multiple NLP tasks. State-of-the-art approaches typically integrate the original input…
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We study the problem of incorporating prior knowledge into a deep Transformer-based model,i.e.,Bidirectional Encoder Representations from Transformers (BERT), to enhance its performance on semantic textual matching tasks. By probing and…
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Transformer-based language models have taken many fields in NLP by storm. BERT and its derivatives dominate most of the existing evaluation benchmarks, including those for Word Sense Disambiguation (WSD), thanks to their ability in…
In this paper, we describe our approach to utilize pre-trained BERT models with Convolutional Neural Networks for sub-task A of the Multilingual Offensive Language Identification shared task (OffensEval 2020), which is a part of the SemEval…
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Recently, pre-trained Transformer based language models, such as BERT, have shown great superiority over the traditional methods in many Natural Language Processing (NLP) tasks. However, the computational cost for deploying these models is…