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Position-aware self-attention based neural sequence labeling

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Wei Wei *
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Xian-Ling Mao
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Guangyou Zhou
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Pan Zhou
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Sheng Jiang
DOI:10.1016/j.patcog.2020.107636delete
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Sequence labeling is a fundamental task in natural language processing and has been widely studied. Recently, RNN-based sequence labeling models have increasingly gained attentions. Despite superior performance achieved by learning the long short-term (i.e., successive) dependencies, the way of sequentially processing inputs might limit the ability to capture the non-continuous relations over tokens within a sentence. To tackle the problem, we focus on how to effectively model successive and discrete dependencies of each token for enhancing the sequence labeling performance. Specifically, we propose an innovative attention-based model (called position-aware self-attention, i.e., PSA) as well as a well-designed self-attentional context fusion layer within a neural network architecture, to explore the positional information of an input sequence for capturing the latent relations among tokens. Extensive experiments on three classical tasks in sequence labeling domain, i.e., part-of-speech (POS ) tagging, named entity recognition (NER) and phrase chunking, demonstrate our proposed model outperforms the state-of-the-arts without any external knowledge, in terms of various metrics. (c) 2020 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
Keywords:
Equence labeling
Self-attention
Discrete context dependency
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beijing institute of technology
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