Papers with prototypical networks

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This Patient Looks Like That Patient: Prototypical Networks for Interpretable Diagnosis Prediction from Clinical Text (2022.aacl-main)

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Challenge: a novel method for diagnosis prediction from clinical text is needed in clinical practice . prototypical part networks and label-wise attention are used to make models interpretable and helpful .
Approach: They propose a deep neural model that makes predictions based on parts of the text that are similar to prototypical patients.
Outcome: The proposed method outperforms baseline models on two clinical datasets and provides valuable explanations for clinical decision support.
Few-Shot Event Argument Extraction Based on a Meta-Learning Approach (2024.naacl-srw)

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Challenge: Recent studies on few-shot event extraction focus on event trigger detection and argument extraction in meta-learning contexts.
Approach: They propose to use prototypical networks to perform few-shot event argument extraction . they propose to inject syntactic knowledge into the model to enhance relation embeddings .
Outcome: The proposed approach achieves strong performance on ACE 2005 in several few-shot configurations.
Enhancing the Prototype Network with Local-to-Global Optimization for Few-Shot Relation Extraction (2025.findings-naacl)

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Challenge: Relation Extraction (RE) is a task that aims to extract semantic relationships from unstructured text.
Approach: They propose a local optimization strategy that indirectly optimizes the prototypical networks by optimizing the other information contained within the prototypes.
Outcome: The proposed model improves on the FewRel 1.0 and FewRela 2.0 datasets.
Few-shot Named Entity Recognition with Entity-level Prototypical Network Enhanced by Dispersedly Distributed Prototypes (2022.coling-1)

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Challenge: Existing prototypical networks for named entity recognition suffer from label dependency and tightly distributed prototypes, thus causing misclassifications.
Approach: They propose an Entity-level Prototypical Network enhanced by dispersedly distributed prototypes to build entity-level prototypes and distribute them dispersionally.
Outcome: The proposed system outperforms the previous models on two evaluation tasks and the Few-NERD settings in terms of overall performance.
Multi-Level Matching and Aggregation Network for Few-Shot Relation Classification (P19-1)

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Challenge: Existing methods for few-shot relation classification use supervised training, but lack of large-scale manually labeled data.
Approach: They propose a multi-level matching and aggregation network (MLMAN) for few-shot relation classification.
Outcome: The proposed model achieves state-of-the-art performance on the FewRel dataset.
Memorisation versus Generalisation in Pre-trained Language Models (2022.acl-long)

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Challenge: State-of-the-art pre-trained language models have been shown to memorise facts and perform well with limited amounts of training data.
Approach: They propose to extend pre-trained language models to generalise and memorise facts in noisy and low-resource scenarios.
Outcome: The proposed extension improves performance in low-resource named entity recognition tasks.
This Reads Like That: Deep Learning for Interpretable Natural Language Processing (2023.emnlp-main)

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Challenge: In this work, we explore the extension of prototypical networks to natural language processing.
Approach: They propose a weighted similarity measure that enhances the similarity computation by focusing on informative dimensions of pre-trained sentence embeddings.
Outcome: The proposed method improves predictive performance on AG News and RT Polarity datasets and the rationale-based recurrent convolutions.
Prompt-based Zero-shot Relation Extraction with Semantic Knowledge Augmentation (2024.lrec-main)

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Challenge: Existing approaches to recognize unseen relations for which there are no training instances are lacking in the real-world setting.
Approach: They propose a prompt-based model with semantic knowledge augmentation to recognize unseen relations under zero-shot setting.
Outcome: The proposed model outperforms existing methods under zero-shot setting on three datasets.

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