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title = "Knowledge Guided Metric Learning for Few-Shot Text Classification",
author = "Sui, Dianbo and
Chen, Yubo and
Mao, Binjie and
Qiu, Delai and
Liu, Kang and
Zhao, Jun",
editor = "Toutanova, Kristina and
Rumshisky, Anna and
Zettlemoyer, Luke and
Hakkani-Tur, Dilek and
Beltagy, Iz and
Bethard, Steven and
Cotterell, Ryan and
Chakraborty, Tanmoy and
Zhou, Yichao",
booktitle = "Proceedings of the 2021 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies",
month = jun,
year = "2021",
address = "Online",
publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
url = "https://aclanthology.org/2021.naacl-main.261",
doi = "10.18653/v1/2021.naacl-main.261",
pages = "3266--3271",
abstract = "Humans can distinguish new categories very efficiently with few examples, largely due to the fact that human beings can leverage knowledge obtained from relevant tasks. However, deep learning based text classification model tends to struggle to achieve satisfactory performance when labeled data are scarce. Inspired by human intelligence, we propose to introduce external knowledge into few-shot learning to imitate human knowledge. A novel parameter generator network is investigated to this end, which is able to use the external knowledge to generate different metrics for different tasks. Armed with this network, similar tasks can use similar metrics while different tasks use different metrics. Through experiments, we demonstrate that our method outperforms the SoTA few-shot text classification models.",
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%T Knowledge Guided Metric Learning for Few-Shot Text Classification
%A Sui, Dianbo
%A Chen, Yubo
%A Mao, Binjie
%A Qiu, Delai
%A Liu, Kang
%A Zhao, Jun
%Y Toutanova, Kristina
%Y Rumshisky, Anna
%Y Zettlemoyer, Luke
%Y Hakkani-Tur, Dilek
%Y Beltagy, Iz
%Y Bethard, Steven
%Y Cotterell, Ryan
%Y Chakraborty, Tanmoy
%Y Zhou, Yichao
%S Proceedings of the 2021 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies
%D 2021
%8 June
%I Association for Computational Linguistics
%C Online
%F sui-etal-2021-knowledge
%X Humans can distinguish new categories very efficiently with few examples, largely due to the fact that human beings can leverage knowledge obtained from relevant tasks. However, deep learning based text classification model tends to struggle to achieve satisfactory performance when labeled data are scarce. Inspired by human intelligence, we propose to introduce external knowledge into few-shot learning to imitate human knowledge. A novel parameter generator network is investigated to this end, which is able to use the external knowledge to generate different metrics for different tasks. Armed with this network, similar tasks can use similar metrics while different tasks use different metrics. Through experiments, we demonstrate that our method outperforms the SoTA few-shot text classification models.
%R 10.18653/v1/2021.naacl-main.261
%U https://aclanthology.org/2021.naacl-main.261
%U https://doi.org/10.18653/v1/2021.naacl-main.261
%P 3266-3271
Markdown (Informal)
[Knowledge Guided Metric Learning for Few-Shot Text Classification](https://aclanthology.org/2021.naacl-main.261) (Sui et al., NAACL 2021)
ACL
- Dianbo Sui, Yubo Chen, Binjie Mao, Delai Qiu, Kang Liu, and Jun Zhao. 2021. Knowledge Guided Metric Learning for Few-Shot Text Classification. In Proceedings of the 2021 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies, pages 3266–3271, Online. Association for Computational Linguistics.