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title = "Learning Transferable Representation for Bilingual Relation Extraction via Convolutional Neural Networks",
author = "Min, Bonan and
Jiang, Zhuolin and
Freedman, Marjorie and
Weischedel, Ralph",
editor = "Kondrak, Greg and
Watanabe, Taro",
booktitle = "Proceedings of the Eighth International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing (Volume 1: Long Papers)",
month = nov,
year = "2017",
address = "Taipei, Taiwan",
publisher = "Asian Federation of Natural Language Processing",
url = "https://aclanthology.org/I17-1068",
pages = "674--684",
abstract = "Typically, relation extraction models are trained to extract instances of a relation ontology using only training data from a single language. However, the concepts represented by the relation ontology (e.g. ResidesIn, EmployeeOf) are language independent. The numbers of annotated examples available for a given ontology vary between languages. For example, there are far fewer annotated examples in Spanish and Japanese than English and Chinese. Furthermore, using only language-specific training data results in the need to manually annotate equivalently large amounts of training for each new language a system encounters. We propose a deep neural network to learn transferable, discriminative bilingual representation. Experiments on the ACE 2005 multilingual training corpus demonstrate that the joint training process results in significant improvement in relation classification performance over the monolingual counterparts. The learnt representation is discriminative and transferable between languages. When using 10{\%} (25K English words, or 30K Chinese characters) of the training data, our approach results in doubling F1 compared to a monolingual baseline. We achieve comparable performance to the monolingual system trained with 250K English words (or 300K Chinese characters) With 50{\%} of training data.",
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%T Learning Transferable Representation for Bilingual Relation Extraction via Convolutional Neural Networks
%A Min, Bonan
%A Jiang, Zhuolin
%A Freedman, Marjorie
%A Weischedel, Ralph
%Y Kondrak, Greg
%Y Watanabe, Taro
%S Proceedings of the Eighth International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing (Volume 1: Long Papers)
%D 2017
%8 November
%I Asian Federation of Natural Language Processing
%C Taipei, Taiwan
%F min-etal-2017-learning
%X Typically, relation extraction models are trained to extract instances of a relation ontology using only training data from a single language. However, the concepts represented by the relation ontology (e.g. ResidesIn, EmployeeOf) are language independent. The numbers of annotated examples available for a given ontology vary between languages. For example, there are far fewer annotated examples in Spanish and Japanese than English and Chinese. Furthermore, using only language-specific training data results in the need to manually annotate equivalently large amounts of training for each new language a system encounters. We propose a deep neural network to learn transferable, discriminative bilingual representation. Experiments on the ACE 2005 multilingual training corpus demonstrate that the joint training process results in significant improvement in relation classification performance over the monolingual counterparts. The learnt representation is discriminative and transferable between languages. When using 10% (25K English words, or 30K Chinese characters) of the training data, our approach results in doubling F1 compared to a monolingual baseline. We achieve comparable performance to the monolingual system trained with 250K English words (or 300K Chinese characters) With 50% of training data.
%U https://aclanthology.org/I17-1068
%P 674-684
Markdown (Informal)
[Learning Transferable Representation for Bilingual Relation Extraction via Convolutional Neural Networks](https://aclanthology.org/I17-1068) (Min et al., IJCNLP 2017)
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