Papers with error propagation problem
SURE: Mutually Visible Objects and Self-generated Candidate Labels For Relation Extraction (2025.coling-main)
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| Challenge: | Joint relation extraction models face high computational complexity, complex network architectures, difficult parameter tuning and limited interpretability. |
| Approach: | They develop a candidate label marker mechanism that prioritizes strategic label selection over simple label generation. |
| Outcome: | The proposed candidate label marks improve the SOTA methods by 2.5%, 1.9%, 1.2% . the proposed candidate labels improve the performance of the proposed methods . |
A Boundary-aware Neural Model for Nested Named Entity Recognition (D19-1)
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| Challenge: | Existing methods for named entity recognition ignore nested entities . a boundary-aware neural model can locate entities precisely by detecting boundaries . |
| Approach: | They propose a boundary-aware neural model for nested named entity recognition which leverages entity boundaries to predict entity categorical labels. |
| Outcome: | The proposed model outperforms state-of-the-art methods on GENIA dataset . it captures dependencies of entity boundaries and categorical labels, which helps to improve identifying entities. |
An Empirical Study of Pipeline vs. Joint approaches to Entity and Relation Extraction (2022.aacl-short)
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| Challenge: | Entity and Relation Extraction tasks are often compared to pipeline approaches . a recent study shows that joint approaches can produce comparable results . |
| Approach: | They propose to use two approaches to the Entity and Relation Extraction task to compare their performance. |
| Outcome: | The proposed approach outperforms the best pipeline model but improperly designed approaches may have poor performance. |
Pattern-revising Enhanced Simple Question Answering over Knowledge Bases (C18-1)
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| Challenge: | Simple question answering over knowledge bases is one of the most important natural language processing tasks. |
| Approach: | They propose to conduct pattern extraction and entity linking first and put forward pattern revising procedure to mitigate the error propagation problem. |
| Outcome: | The proposed method outperforms the current state-of-the-art in this task by an absolute large margin. |
Sentence Matching with Syntax- and Semantics-Aware BERT (2020.coling-main)
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| Challenge: | Sentence matching aims to determine the special relationship between two sentences. |
| Approach: | They propose to integrate syntactic and semantic information into BERT with sentence matching by using an implicit integration method that is less sensitive to the output structure information. |
| Outcome: | The proposed method achieves state-of-the-art or competitive performance on several sentence matching datasets. |
A Graph-Based Neural Model for End-to-End Frame Semantic Parsing (2021.emnlp-main)
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| Challenge: | Existing studies focus on frame semantic parsing as a graph construction problem. |
| Approach: | They propose an end-to-end neural model to tackle frame semantic parsing jointly. |
| Outcome: | The proposed model is highly competitive and performs better than pipeline models on two benchmark datasets. |
A Sequence-to-Sequence&Set Model for Text-to-Table Generation (2023.findings-acl)
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| Challenge: | Existing models for text-to-table generation are order-insensitive, but suffer from errors . a novel sequence-tosequence&set model generates table body rows in parallel . |
| Approach: | They propose a sequence-to-sequence generation task that serializes each table into a token sequence during training by concatenating all rows in a top-down order. |
| Outcome: | The proposed model outperforms baselines on commonly-used datasets. |
Scalable-DSC: A Structural Template Prompt Approach to Scalable Dialogue State Correction (2023.emnlp-main)
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| Challenge: | Existing approaches to correct wrong slot values in dialogue state tracking are intertwined with specific DST models, limiting their applicability to other DSTs. |
| Approach: | They propose a Scalable Dialogue State Correction model that corrects wrong slot values in predicted dialogue states by using a structural template prompt. |
| Outcome: | The proposed model achieves state-of-the-art results on MultiWOZ 2.0-2.4. |
Query-based Instance Discrimination Network for Relational Triple Extraction (2022.emnlp-main)
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| Challenge: | Recent approaches to extract relational triples from open domain texts suffer from error propagation, relation redundancy and lack of high-level connections. |
| Approach: | They propose a query-based approach to construct instance-level representations for relational triples . they use query embeddings and token embeddables to extract all types of triples in one step . |
| Outcome: | The proposed method achieves state-of-the-art on five widely used benchmarks. |
A Novel Table-to-Graph Generation Approach for Document-Level Joint Entity and Relation Extraction (2023.acl-long)
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| Challenge: | Existing document-level relation extraction methods assume entities and their mentions are given beforehand, which is inadequate for real-world applications. |
| Approach: | They propose a table-to-graph generation model for joint extraction of entities and relations at document-level. |
| Outcome: | The proposed model surpasses existing methods by a large margin and achieves state-of-the-art results on a document-level relation extraction dataset. |
Jointly Learning to Repair Code and Generate Commit Message (2021.emnlp-main)
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| Challenge: | Existing work performs code repair and commit message generation independently. |
| Approach: | They propose a cascaded method to repair program codes and generate commit messages in a unified framework. |
| Outcome: | The proposed model significantly outperforms baselines on a buggy-fixed-commit dataset. |