Title
Meta-Learning for Neural Relation Classification with Distant Supervision
Abstract
Distant supervision provides a means to create a large number of weakly labeled data at low cost for relation classification. However, the resulting labeled instances are very noisy, containing data with wrong labels. Many approaches have been proposed to select a subset of reliable instances for neural model training, but they still suffer from noisy labeling problem or underutilization of the weakly-labeled data. To better select more reliable training instances, we introduce a small amount of manually labeled data as reference to guide the selection process. In this paper, we propose a meta-learning based approach, which learns to reweight noisy training data under the guidance of reference data. As the clean reference data is usually very small, we propose to augment it by dynamically distilling the most reliable elite instances from the noisy data. Experiments on several datasets demonstrate that the reference data can effectively guide the selection of training data, and our augmented approach consistently improves the performance of relation classification comparing to the existing state-of-the-art methods.
Year
DOI
Venue
2020
10.1145/3340531.3412039
CIKM '20: The 29th ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management Virtual Event Ireland October, 2020
DocType
ISSN
ISBN
Conference
In Proceedings of CIKM, pp. 815-824. 2020
978-1-4503-6859-9
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
1
0.35
17
Authors
7
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Zhenzhen Li124.09
Jian-yun Nie23681238.61
Benyou Wang310.69
Pan Du4968.03
Yuhan Zhang510.35
Lixin Zou6394.81
Dongsheng Li729960.22