K-PLUG: Knowledge-injected Pre-trained Language Model for Natural Language Understanding and Generation in E-Commerce

Song Xu, Haoran Li, Peng Yuan, Yujia Wang, Youzheng Wu, Xiaodong He, Ying Liu, Bowen Zhou


Abstract
Existing pre-trained language models (PLMs) have demonstrated the effectiveness of self-supervised learning for a broad range of natural language processing (NLP) tasks. However, most of them are not explicitly aware of domain-specific knowledge, which is essential for downstream tasks in many domains, such as tasks in e-commerce scenarios. In this paper, we propose K-PLUG, a knowledge-injected pre-trained language model based on the encoder-decoder transformer that can be transferred to both natural language understanding and generation tasks. Specifically, we propose five knowledge-aware self-supervised pre-training objectives to formulate the learning of domain-specific knowledge, including e-commerce domain-specific knowledge-bases, aspects of product entities, categories of product entities, and unique selling propositions of product entities. We verify our method in a diverse range of e-commerce scenarios that require domain-specific knowledge, including product knowledge base completion, abstractive product summarization, and multi-turn dialogue. K-PLUG significantly outperforms baselines across the board, which demonstrates that the proposed method effectively learns a diverse set of domain-specific knowledge for both language understanding and generation tasks. Our code is available.
Anthology ID:
2021.findings-emnlp.1
Volume:
Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2021
Month:
November
Year:
2021
Address:
Punta Cana, Dominican Republic
Editors:
Marie-Francine Moens, Xuanjing Huang, Lucia Specia, Scott Wen-tau Yih
Venue:
Findings
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SIGDAT
Publisher:
Association for Computational Linguistics
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Pages:
1–17
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https://aclanthology.org/2021.findings-emnlp.1
DOI:
10.18653/v1/2021.findings-emnlp.1
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Cite (ACL):
Song Xu, Haoran Li, Peng Yuan, Yujia Wang, Youzheng Wu, Xiaodong He, Ying Liu, and Bowen Zhou. 2021. K-PLUG: Knowledge-injected Pre-trained Language Model for Natural Language Understanding and Generation in E-Commerce. In Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2021, pages 1–17, Punta Cana, Dominican Republic. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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K-PLUG: Knowledge-injected Pre-trained Language Model for Natural Language Understanding and Generation in E-Commerce (Xu et al., Findings 2021)
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 https://aclanthology.org/2021.findings-emnlp.1.mp4
Code
 xu-song/k-plug