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Title: OntoType: Ontology-Guided and Pre-Trained Language Model Assisted Fine-Grained Entity Typing
Fine-grained entity typing (FET), which assigns entities in text with context-sensitive, fine-grained semantic types, is a basic but important task for knowledge extraction from unstructured text. FET has been studied extensively in natural language processing and typically relies on human-annotated corpora for training, which is costly and difficult to scale. Recent studies explore the utilization of pre-trained language models (PLMs) as a knowledge base to generate rich and context-aware weak supervision for FET. However, a PLM still requires direction and guidance to serve as a knowledge base as they often generate a mixture of rough and fine-grained types, or tokens unsuitable for typing. In this study, we vision that an ontology provides a semantics-rich, hierarchical structure, which will help select the best results generated by multiple PLM models and head words. Specifically, we propose a novel annotation-free, ontology-guided FET method, ONTOTYPE, which follows a type ontological structure, from coarse to fine, ensembles multiple PLM prompting results to generate a set of type candidates, and refines its type resolution, under the local context with a natural language inference model. Our experiments on the Ontonotes, FIGER, and NYT datasets using their associated ontological structures demonstrate that our method outperforms the state-of-the-art zero-shot fine-grained entity typing methods as well as a typical LLM method, ChatGPT. Our error analysis shows that refinement of the existing ontology structures will further improve fine-grained entity typing.  more » « less
Award ID(s):
1956151 2118329
PAR ID:
10540604
Author(s) / Creator(s):
; ; ;
Editor(s):
Baeza-Yates, Ricardo; Bonchi, Francesco
Publisher / Repository:
ACM
Date Published:
Edition / Version:
1
ISBN:
9798400704901
Page Range / eLocation ID:
1407 to 1417
Subject(s) / Keyword(s):
OntoType Fine-Grained Entity Typing Ontology-Guidance Pre-Trained Language Model
Format(s):
Medium: X
Location:
Barcelona Spain
Sponsoring Org:
National Science Foundation
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