Decomposed Meta-Learning for Few-Shot Named Entity Recognition

Few-shot named entity recognition (NER) systems aim at recognizing novel-class named entities based on only a few labeled examples. In this paper, we present a decomposed meta-learning approach which addresses the problem of few-shot NER by sequentially tackling few-shot span detection and few-shot entity typing using meta-learning. In particular, we take the few-shot span detection as a sequence labeling problem and train the span detector by introducing the model-agnostic meta-learning (MAML) algorithm to find a good model parameter initialization that could fast adapt to new entity classes. For few-shot entity typing, we propose MAML-ProtoNet, i.e., MAML-enhanced prototypical networks to find a good embedding space that can better distinguish text span representations from different entity classes. Extensive experiments on various benchmarks show that our approach achieves superior performance over prior methods.

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Task Dataset Model Metric Name Metric Value Global Rank Result Benchmark
Few-shot NER Few-NERD (INTER) DecomposedMetaNER 5 way 1~2 shot 64.75±0.35 # 5
5 way 5~10 shot 71.49±0.47 # 5
10 way 1~2 shot 58.65±0.43 # 5
10 way 5~10 shot 68.11±0.05 # 5
Few-shot NER Few-NERD (INTRA) DecomposedMetaNER 5 way 1~2 shot 49.48±0.85 # 5
5 way 5~10 shot 62.92±0.57 # 5
10 way 1~2 shot 42.84±0.46 # 5
10 way 5~10 shot 57.31±0.25 # 5

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