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Augmented Natural Language For Generative Sequence Labeling

Ben Athiwaratkun, Cicero Nogueira Dos Santos, Jason Krone, Bing Xiang Β· Proceedings of the 2020 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP) Β· 2020

We propose a generative framework for joint sequence labeling and sentence-level classification. Our model performs multiple sequence labeling tasks at once using a single, shared natural language output space. Unlike prior discriminative methods, our model naturally incorporates label semantics and shares knowledge across tasks. Our framework is general purpose, performing well on few-shot, low-resource, and high-resource tasks. We demonstrate these advantages on popular named entity recognition, slot labeling, and intent classification benchmarks. We set a new state-of-the-art for few-shot slot labeling, improving substantially upon the previous 5-shot ((75.0% \rightarrow 90.9%)) and 1-shot ((70.4% \rightarrow 81.0%)) state-of-the-art results. Furthermore, our model generates large improvements ((46.27% \rightarrow 63.83%)) in low-resource slot labeling over a BERT baseline by incorporating label semantics. We also maintain competitive results on high-resource tasks, performing within two points of the state-of-the-art on all tasks and setting a new state-of-the-art on the SNIPS dataset.

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