Zero-Shot Sequence Labeling: Transferring Knowledge from Sentences to Tokens

Marek Rei, Anders Søgaard


Abstract
Can attention- or gradient-based visualization techniques be used to infer token-level labels for binary sequence tagging problems, using networks trained only on sentence-level labels? We construct a neural network architecture based on soft attention, train it as a binary sentence classifier and evaluate against token-level annotation on four different datasets. Inferring token labels from a network provides a method for quantitatively evaluating what the model is learning, along with generating useful feedback in assistance systems. Our results indicate that attention-based methods are able to predict token-level labels more accurately, compared to gradient-based methods, sometimes even rivaling the supervised oracle network.
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N18-1027
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Proceedings of the 2018 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies, Volume 1 (Long Papers)
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June
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2018
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New Orleans, Louisiana
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Marilyn Walker, Heng Ji, Amanda Stent
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NAACL
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Association for Computational Linguistics
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293–302
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https://aclanthology.org/N18-1027
DOI:
10.18653/v1/N18-1027
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Marek Rei and Anders Søgaard. 2018. Zero-Shot Sequence Labeling: Transferring Knowledge from Sentences to Tokens. In Proceedings of the 2018 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies, Volume 1 (Long Papers), pages 293–302, New Orleans, Louisiana. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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