Cross-Lingual Contrastive Learning for Fine-Grained Entity Typing for Low-Resource Languages (2022.acl-long)
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| Challenge: | Experimental results show that by applying our framework, we can easily learn effective FGET models for low-resource languages. |
| Approach: | They propose a cross-lingual contrastive learning framework to learn FGET models for low-resource languages. |
| Outcome: | The proposed framework can learn effective FGET models for low-resource languages even without human-labeled data. |
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