MSnet: A BERT-based Network for Gendered Pronoun Resolution

Zili Wang


Abstract
The pre-trained BERT model achieves a remarkable state of the art across a wide range of tasks in natural language processing. For solving the gender bias in gendered pronoun resolution task, I propose a novel neural network model based on the pre-trained BERT. This model is a type of mention score classifier and uses an attention mechanism with no parameters to compute the contextual representation of entity span, and a vector to represent the triple-wise semantic similarity among the pronoun and the entities. In stage 1 of the gendered pronoun resolution task, a variant of this model, trained in the fine-tuning approach, reduced the multi-class logarithmic loss to 0.3033 in the 5-fold cross-validation of training set and 0.2795 in testing set. Besides, this variant won the 2nd place with a score at 0.17289 in stage 2 of the task. The code in this paper is available at: https://github.com/ziliwang/MSnet-for-Gendered-Pronoun-Resolution
Anthology ID:
W19-3813
Volume:
Proceedings of the First Workshop on Gender Bias in Natural Language Processing
Month:
August
Year:
2019
Address:
Florence, Italy
Editors:
Marta R. Costa-jussà, Christian Hardmeier, Will Radford, Kellie Webster
Venue:
GeBNLP
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Publisher:
Association for Computational Linguistics
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Pages:
89–95
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URL:
https://aclanthology.org/W19-3813
DOI:
10.18653/v1/W19-3813
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Cite (ACL):
Zili Wang. 2019. MSnet: A BERT-based Network for Gendered Pronoun Resolution. In Proceedings of the First Workshop on Gender Bias in Natural Language Processing, pages 89–95, Florence, Italy. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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MSnet: A BERT-based Network for Gendered Pronoun Resolution (Wang, GeBNLP 2019)
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PDF:
https://aclanthology.org/W19-3813.pdf
Code
 ziliwang/MSnet-for-Gendered-Pronoun-Resolution
Data
GAP Coreference Dataset