Title
Contrastive Learning with Hard Negative Entities for Entity Set Expansion
Abstract
Entity Set Expansion (ESE) is a promising task which aims to expand entities of the target semantic class described by a small seed entity set. Various NLP and IR applications will benefit from ESE due to its ability to discover knowledge. Although previous ESE methods have achieved great progress, most of them still lack the ability to handle hard negative entities (i.e., entities that are difficult to distinguish from the target entities), since two entities may or may not belong to the same semantic class based on different granularity levels we analyze on. To address this challenge, we devise an entity-level masked language model with contrastive learning to refine the representation of entities. In addition, we propose the ProbExpan, a novel probabilistic ESE framework utilizing the entity representation obtained by the aforementioned language model to expand entities. Extensive experiments and detailed analyses on three datasets show that our method outperforms previous state-of-the-art methods.
Year
DOI
Venue
2022
10.1145/3477495.3531954
SIGIR '22: Proceedings of the 45th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval
Keywords
DocType
Citations 
Knowledge Discovery, Entity Set Expansion, Contrastive Learning
Conference
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
8
6
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Yinghui Li100.34
Yangning Li200.68
Yuxin He300.34
Tianyu Yu400.34
Shen Ying57323.48
Zheng Hai-Tao614224.39