Lisheng Fu


2021

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Learning Relatedness between Types with Prototypes for Relation Extraction
Lisheng Fu | Ralph Grishman
Proceedings of the 16th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Main Volume

Relation schemas are often pre-defined for each relation dataset. Relation types can be related from different datasets and have overlapping semantics. We hypothesize we can combine these datasets according to the semantic relatedness between the relation types to overcome the problem of lack of training data. It is often easy to discover the connection between relation types based on relation names or annotation guides, but hard to measure the exact similarity and take advantage of the connection between the relation types from different datasets. We propose to use prototypical examples to represent each relation type and use these examples to augment related types from a different dataset. We obtain further improvement (ACE05) with this type augmentation over a strong baseline which uses multi-task learning between datasets to obtain better feature representation for relations. We make our implementation publicly available: https://github.com/fufrank5/relatedness

2018

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Distantly Supervised Attribute Detection from Reviews
Lisheng Fu | Pablo Barrio
Proceedings of the 2018 EMNLP Workshop W-NUT: The 4th Workshop on Noisy User-generated Text

This work aims to detect specific attributes of a place (e.g., if it has a romantic atmosphere, or if it offers outdoor seating) from its user reviews via distant supervision: without direct annotation of the review text, we use the crowdsourced attribute labels of the place as labels of the review text. We then use review-level attention to pay more attention to those reviews related to the attributes. The experimental results show that our attention-based model predicts attributes for places from reviews with over 98% accuracy. The attention weights assigned to each review provide explanation of capturing relevant reviews.

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A Case Study on Learning a Unified Encoder of Relations
Lisheng Fu | Bonan Min | Thien Huu Nguyen | Ralph Grishman
Proceedings of the 2018 EMNLP Workshop W-NUT: The 4th Workshop on Noisy User-generated Text

Typical relation extraction models are trained on a single corpus annotated with a pre-defined relation schema. An individual corpus is often small, and the models may often be biased or overfitted to the corpus. We hypothesize that we can learn a better representation by combining multiple relation datasets. We attempt to use a shared encoder to learn the unified feature representation and to augment it with regularization by adversarial training. The additional corpora feeding the encoder can help to learn a better feature representation layer even though the relation schemas are different. We use ACE05 and ERE datasets as our case study for experiments. The multi-task model obtains significant improvement on both datasets.

2017

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Domain Adaptation for Relation Extraction with Domain Adversarial Neural Network
Lisheng Fu | Thien Huu Nguyen | Bonan Min | Ralph Grishman
Proceedings of the Eighth International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing (Volume 2: Short Papers)

Relations are expressed in many domains such as newswire, weblogs and phone conversations. Trained on a source domain, a relation extractor’s performance degrades when applied to target domains other than the source. A common yet labor-intensive method for domain adaptation is to construct a target-domain-specific labeled dataset for adapting the extractor. In response, we present an unsupervised domain adaptation method which only requires labels from the source domain. Our method is a joint model consisting of a CNN-based relation classifier and a domain-adversarial classifier. The two components are optimized jointly to learn a domain-independent representation for prediction on the target domain. Our model outperforms the state-of-the-art on all three test domains of ACE 2005.

2016

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A Two-stage Approach for Extending Event Detection to New Types via Neural Networks
Thien Huu Nguyen | Lisheng Fu | Kyunghyun Cho | Ralph Grishman
Proceedings of the 1st Workshop on Representation Learning for NLP

2013

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An Efficient Active Learning Framework for New Relation Types
Lisheng Fu | Ralph Grishman
Proceedings of the Sixth International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing