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Fine-grained Entity Typing through Increased Discourse Context and Adaptive Classification Thresholds

Computation and Language 2018-04-24 v1

Abstract

Fine-grained entity typing is the task of assigning fine-grained semantic types to entity mentions. We propose a neural architecture which learns a distributional semantic representation that leverages a greater amount of semantic context -- both document and sentence level information -- than prior work. We find that additional context improves performance, with further improvements gained by utilizing adaptive classification thresholds. Experiments show that our approach without reliance on hand-crafted features achieves the state-of-the-art results on three benchmark datasets.

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@article{arxiv.1804.08000,
  title  = {Fine-grained Entity Typing through Increased Discourse Context and Adaptive Classification Thresholds},
  author = {Sheng Zhang and Kevin Duh and Benjamin Van Durme},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1804.08000},
  year   = {2018}
}

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Accepted to StarSem 2018

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