Leveraging Contextual Information for Effective Entity Salience Detection (2024.findings-naacl)
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Rajarshi Bhowmik, Marco Ponza, Atharva Tendle, Anant Gupta, Rebecca Jiang, Xingyu Lu, Qian Zhao, Daniel Preotiuc-Pietro
| Challenge: | Prior work on salient entity detection focused on machine learning models that require heavy feature engineering. |
| Approach: | They propose to fine-tune medium-sized language models with a cross-encoder style architecture to achieve significant performance gains over feature engineering approaches. |
| Outcome: | The proposed model fine-tunes medium-sized pre-trained language models with a cross-encoder style architecture yields substantial performance gains over feature engineering approaches. |
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