Benfeng Xu

Curriculum Learning for Natural Language Understanding

2020

With the great success of pre-trained language models, the pretrain-finetune paradigm now becomes the undoubtedly dominant solution for natural language understanding (NLU) tasks. At the fine-tune stage, target task data is usually introduced in a …

Entity Structure Within and Throughout: Modeling Mention Dependencies for Document-Level Relation Extraction

2021 · Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence

Entities, as the essential elements in relation extraction tasks, exhibit certain structure. In this work, we formulate such entity structure as distinctive dependencies between mention pairs. We then propose SSAN, which incorporates these structural dependencies …