Summary of Description Boosting For Zero-shot Entity and Relation Classification, by Gabriele Picco et al.
Description Boosting for Zero-Shot Entity and Relation Classification
by Gabriele Picco, Leopold Fuchs, Marcos Martínez Galindo, Alberto Purpura, Vanessa López, Hoang Thanh Lam
First submitted to arxiv on: 4 Jun 2024
Categories
- Main: Computation and Language (cs.CL)
- Secondary: Information Retrieval (cs.IR); Machine Learning (cs.LG)
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| High | Paper authors | High Difficulty Summary Read the original abstract here |
| Medium | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Medium Difficulty Summary The paper presents a novel approach to zero-shot learning for entity and relation classification, which leverages available external information about unseen classes. The authors analyze recent research in this area, finding that existing methods are sensitive to textual descriptions of entities or relations. They propose a strategy for generating variations of an initial description, ranking them, and using an ensemble method to enhance the predictions of zero-shot models. Experimental results on four datasets show that their approach outperforms existing methods and achieves state-of-the-art results under zero-shot learning settings. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary The paper is about finding a better way to do something called “zero-shot learning”. This means we want to teach a computer program to recognize things (like names or relationships) without giving it lots of examples. The problem is that some programs are good at this, but only if they have the right information about what those things look like. The authors came up with a new way to help these programs by making small changes to the information and then combining them. They tested their idea on four different datasets and found it worked better than other methods. |
Keywords
» Artificial intelligence » Classification » Zero shot
