NE-Table: A Neural key-value table for Named Entities

Janarthanan Rajendran, Jatin Ganhotra, Xiaoxiao Guo, Mo Yu, Satinder Singh, Lazaros Polymenakos


Abstract
Many Natural Language Processing (NLP) tasks depend on using Named Entities (NEs) that are contained in texts and in external knowledge sources. While this is easy for humans, the present neural methods that rely on learned word embeddings may not perform well for these NLP tasks, especially in the presence of Out-Of-Vocabulary (OOV) or rare NEs. In this paper, we propose a solution for this problem, and present empirical evaluations on: a) a structured Question-Answering task, b) three related Goal-Oriented dialog tasks, and c) a Reading-Comprehension task, which show that the proposed method can be effective in dealing with both in-vocabulary and OOV NEs. We create extended versions of dialog bAbI tasks 1,2 and 4 and OOV versions of the CBT test set which are available at - https://github.com/IBM/ne-table-datasets/
Anthology ID:
R19-1114
Volume:
Proceedings of the International Conference on Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing (RANLP 2019)
Month:
September
Year:
2019
Address:
Varna, Bulgaria
Editors:
Ruslan Mitkov, Galia Angelova
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RANLP
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Publisher:
INCOMA Ltd.
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Pages:
980–993
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URL:
https://aclanthology.org/R19-1114
DOI:
10.26615/978-954-452-056-4_114
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Cite (ACL):
Janarthanan Rajendran, Jatin Ganhotra, Xiaoxiao Guo, Mo Yu, Satinder Singh, and Lazaros Polymenakos. 2019. NE-Table: A Neural key-value table for Named Entities. In Proceedings of the International Conference on Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing (RANLP 2019), pages 980–993, Varna, Bulgaria. INCOMA Ltd..
Cite (Informal):
NE-Table: A Neural key-value table for Named Entities (Rajendran et al., RANLP 2019)
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PDF:
https://aclanthology.org/R19-1114.pdf
Code
 IBM/ne-table-datasets
Data
CBT