Imposing Label-Relational Inductive Bias for Extremely Fine-Grained Entity Typing

Existing entity typing systems usually exploit the type hierarchy provided by knowledge base (KB) schema to model label correlations and thus improve the overall performance. Such techniques, however, are not directly applicable to more open and practical scenarios where the type set is not restricted by KB schema and includes a vast number of free-form types. To model the underly-ing label correlations without access to manually annotated label structures, we introduce a novel label-relational inductive bias, represented by a graph propagation layer that effectively encodes both global label co-occurrence statistics and word-level similarities.On a large dataset with over 10,000 free-form types, the graph-enhanced model equipped with an attention-based matching module is able to achieve a much higher recall score while maintaining a high-level precision. Specifically, it achieves a 15.3% relative F1 improvement and also less inconsistency in the outputs. We further show that a simple modification of our proposed graph layer can also improve the performance on a conventional and widely-tested dataset that only includes KB-schema types.

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Task Dataset Model Metric Name Metric Value Global Rank Result Benchmark
Entity Typing Ontonotes v5 (English) LabelGCN Xiong et al. (2019) F1 36.9 # 3
Precision 50.3 # 3
Recall 29.2 # 3
Entity Typing Open Entity LabelGCN F1 36.9 # 12

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