Korea, Republic of

Knowledge distillation is an effective method to transfer knowledge from a large pre-trained teacher model to a compacted student model. However, in previous studies, the distilled student models are still large and remain impractical in highly speed-sensitive systems (e.g., an IR system). In this study, we aim to distill a deep pre-trained model into an extremely compacted shallow model like CNN. Specifically, we propose a novel one-teacher and multiple-student knowledge distillation approach to distill a deep pre-trained teacher model into multiple shallow student models with ensemble learning. Moreover, we leverage large-scale unlabeled data to improve the performance of students. Empirical studies on three sentiment classification tasks demonstrate that our approach achieves better results with much fewer parameters (0.9%-18%) and extremely high speedup ratios (100X-1000X).

COLING 2022

One-Teacher and Multiple-Student Knowledge Distillation on Sentiment Classification

knowledge distillation; ensemble learning; sentiment classification

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Recycle Your Wav2Vec2 Codebook: a Speech Perceiver for Keyword Spotting

The Chinese text correction (CTC) focuses on detecting and correcting Chinese spelling errors and grammatical errors. Most existing datasets of Chinese spelling check (CSC) and Chinese grammatical error correction (GEC) are focused on a single sentence written by Chinese-as-a-second-language (CSL) learners. We find that errors caused by native speakers differ significantly from those produced by non-native speakers. These differences make it inappropriate to use the existing test sets directly to evaluate text correction systems for native speakers. Some errors also require the cross-sentence information to be identified and corrected. In this paper, we propose a cross-sentence Chinese text correction dataset for native speakers. Concretely, we manually annotated 1,500 texts written by native speakers. The dataset consists of 30,811 sentences and more than 1,000,000 Chinese characters. It contains four types of errors: spelling errors, redundant words, missing words, and word ordering errors. We also test some state-of-the-art models on the dataset. The experimental results show that even the model with the best performance is 20 points lower than humans, which indicates that there is still much room for improvement. We hope that the new dataset can fill the gap in cross-sentence text correction for native Chinese speakers.

CCTC: A Cross-Sentence Chinese Text Correction Dataset for Native Speakers

Most existing word embedding models use a vast corpus as a primary source while training, but this requires massive time and space for data prepossessing and model training. 
We propose a new model, HG2Vec, that learns word embeddings utilizing only dictionaries and thesauri.
We utilize dictionaries and thesauri as the only resources (without using any text corpus) to train word embeddings and obtain state-of-art results on several benchmarks.
We demonstrate that learning synonyms and antonyms is necessary for word embedding models, so a model can distinguish the words with opposite meanings that appear in similar contexts.
We propose a context-focused loss to boost learning in closely related contexts

HG2Vec: Improved Word Embeddings from Dictionary and Thesaurus Based Heterogeneous Graph

Recently, some span-based methods have
achieved encouraging performances for joint
aspect-sentiment analysis, which first extract
aspects (aspect extraction) by detecting aspect
boundaries and then classify the span-level
sentiments (sentiment classification). However, most existing approaches either sequentially extract task-specific features, leading to
insufficient feature interactions, or they encode aspect features and sentiment features in
a parallel manner, implying that feature representation in each task is largely independent
of each other except for input sharing. Both
of them ignore the internal correlations between the aspect extraction and sentiment classification. To solve this problem, we novelly
propose a hierarchical interactive network (HIASA) to model two-way interactions between
two tasks appropriately, where the hierarchical
interactions involve two steps: shallow-level
interaction and deep-level interaction. First,
we utilize cross-stitch mechanism to combine
the different task-specific features selectively
as the input to ensure proper two-way interactions. Second, the mutual information technique is applied to mutually constrain learning
between two tasks in the output layer, thus the
aspect input and the sentiment input are capable of encoding features of the other task
via backpropagation. Extensive experiments
on three real-world datasets demonstrate HIASA’s superiority over baselines.

A Hierarchical Interactive Network for Joint Span-based Aspect-Sentiment Analysis

Understanding textual content is critical to improving the quality of news recommendation. To achieve this goal, recent studies have proposed to apply pre-trained language models (PLMs) such as BERT for semantic-enhanced news recommendation. Despite their great success in offline evaluation, it is challenging to apply such large PLMs in real-time ranking tasks due to the stringent latency requirements in model updating and inference. To bridge this gap, we propose a plug-and-play pre-trainer, namely PREC, to learn both user and news encoders through multi-task pre-training. Instead of directly leveraging sophisticated PLMs for end-to-end inference, we focus on how to use the cached user and item representations to boost the performance of traditional ID-based models for click-through-rate prediction. This enables efficient online inference as well as compatibility to the widely-used models in industry, which would significantly ease the practical deployment. We validate the effectiveness of PREC through both offline evaluation on public datasets and online A/B testing in an industrial system.

Boosting Deep CTR Prediction with a Plug-and-Play Pre-trainer for News Recommendation

An after-visit summary (AVS) is a summary note given to patients after their clinical visit. It recaps what happened during their clinical visit and guides patients' disease self-management. Studies have shown that a majority of patients found after-visit summaries useful. However, many physicians face excessive workloads and do not have time to write clear and informative summaries. In this paper, we study the problem of automatic generation of after-visit summaries and examine whether those summaries can convey the gist of clinical visits. We report our findings on a new clinical dataset that contains a large number of electronic health record (EHR) notes and their associated summaries. Our results suggest that generation of lay language after-visit summaries remains a challenging task. Crucially, we introduce a feedback mechanism that alerts physicians when an automatic summary fails to capture the important details of the clinical notes or when it contains hallucinated facts that are potentially detrimental to the summary quality. Automatic and human evaluation demonstrates the effectiveness of our approach in providing writing feedback and supporting physicians.

Generation of Patient After-Visit Summaries to Support Physicians

Training with noisy labelled data is known to be detrimental to model performance, especially for high-capacity neural network models in low-resource domains. Our experiments suggest that standard regularisation strategies, such as weight decay and dropout, are ineffective in the face of noisy labels. We propose a simple noisy label detection method that prevents error propagation from the input layer. The approach is based on the observation that the projection of noisy labels is learned through memorisation at advanced stages of learning, and that the Pearson correlation is sensitive to outliers. Extensive experiments over real-world human-disagreement annotations as well as randomly-corrupted and data-augmented labels, across various tasks and domains, demonstrate that our method is effective, regularising noisy labels and improving generalisation performance.

Noisy Label Regularisation for Textual Regression

Intelligent medical services have attracted great research interests for providing automated medical consultation. However, the lack of corpora becomes a main obstacle to related research, particularly data from real scenarios. In this paper, we construct RealMedDial, a Chinese medical dialogue dataset based on real medical consultation. RealMedDial contains 2,637 medical dialogues and 24,255 utterances obtained from Chinese short-video clips of real medical consultations. We collected and annotated a wide range of meta-data with respect to medical dialogue including doctor profiles, hospital departments, diseases and symptoms for fine-grained analysis on language usage pattern and clinical diagnosis. We evaluate the performance of medical response generation, department routing and doctor recommendation on RealMedDial. Results show that RealMedDial are applicable to a wide range of NLP tasks with respect to medical dialogue.

RealMedDial: A Real Telemedical Dialogue Dataset Collected from Online Chinese Short-Video Clips

A VQA model processes images and questions simultaneously with rich semantic information. The attention mechanism can highlight fine-grained features with critical information. However, unattended coarse-grained information is also essential for questions involving global elements. We believe that global coarse-grained information and local fine-grained information can complement each other to provide richer comprehensive information. So we propose a dual capsule attention mask network with mutual learning for VQA. Experimental results show that our method outperforms the baselines in terms of VQA performance and interpretability and achieves new SOTA performance on the VQA-v2 dataset.

Dual Capsule Attention Mask Network with Mutual Learning for Visual Question Answering

This paper introduces a novel Self-supervised Fine-grained Dialogue Evaluation framework (SelF-Eval). The core idea is to model the correlation between turn quality and the entire dialogue quality. We first propose a novel automatic data construction method that can automatically assign fine-grained scores for arbitrarily dialogue data. Then we train SelF-Eval with a multi-level contrastive learning schema which helps to distinguish different score levels. Experimental results on multiple benchmarks show that SelF-Eval is highly consistent with human evaluations and better than the state-of-the-art models.

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