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Could key word masking strategy improve language model?

Borovikova M., Ferré A., Bossy R., Roche M., Nédellec C.. 2023. In : Métais Elisabeth (ed.), Meziane Farid (ed.), Sugumaran Vijayan (ed.) , Manning Warren (ed.) , Reiff-Marganiec Stephan (ed.). Natural language processing and information systems: 28th International Conference on Applications of Natural Language to Information Systems, NLDB 2023, Derby, UK, June 21–23, 2023, Proceedings. Cham : Springer, p. 271-284. (Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 13913). International Conference on Applications of Natural Language to Information Systems (NLDB 2023). 28, 2023-06-21/2023-06-23, Derby (Royaume-Uni).

DOI: 10.57745/HVPITE

DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-35320-8_19

This paper presents an enhanced approach for adapting a Language Model (LM) to a specific domain, with a focus on Named Entity Recognition (NER) and Named Entity Linking (NEL) tasks. Traditional NER/NEL methods require a large amounts of labeled data, which is time and resource intensive to produce. Unsupervised and semi-supervised approaches overcome this limitation but suffer from a lower quality. Our approach, called KeyWord Masking (KWM), fine-tunes a Language Model (LM) for the Masked Language Modeling (MLM) task in a special way. Our experiments demonstrate that KWM outperforms traditional methods in restoring domain-specific entities. This work is a preliminary step towards developing a more sophisticated NER/NEL system for domain-specific data.

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