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E-BERT: Efficient-Yet-Effective Entity Embeddings for BERT

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Poerner, Nina, Waltinger, Ulli, Schütze, Hinrich·2020·Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2020
DOI 10.18653/v1/2020.findings-emnlp.71
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We present a novel way of injecting factual knowledge about entities into the pretrained BERT model ( Devlin et al., 2019): We align Wikipedia2Vec entity vectors (Yamada et al., 2016) with BERT's native wordpiece vector space and use the aligned entity vectors as if they were wordpiece vectors.The resulting entity-enhanced version of BERT (called E-BERT) is similar in spirit to ERNIE (Zhang et al., 2019) and KnowBert (Peters et al., 2019), but it requires no expensive further pretraining of the BERT encoder.We evaluate E-BERT on unsupervised question answering (QA), supervised relation classification (RC) and entity linking (EL).On all three tasks, E-BERT outperforms BERT and other baselines.We also show quantitatively that the original BERT model is overly reliant on the surface form of entity names (e.g., guessing that someone with an Italian-sounding name speaks Italian), and that E-BERT mitigates this problem.

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Figure 1 Schematic depiction of E-BERT-concat.
Figure 1 Schematic depiction of E-BERT-concat.CC-BY · From the PDF
Figure 2 Left y-axis (bars): delta in mean Hits@1 relative to BERT on individual LAMA relations. Right y-axis (crosses): frequency of questions where the answer is a substring of the subject entity name (i.e., questions that would be deleted by the string match filter). Model size: BASE . Due to space constraints, we only show relations with max absolute delta ≥ 0 . 075 .
Figure 2 Left y-axis (bars): delta in mean Hits@1 relative to BERT on individual LAMA relations. Right y-axis (crosses): frequency of questions where the answer is a substring of the subject entity name (i.e., questions that would be deleted by the string match filter). Model size: BASE . Due to space constraints, we only show relations with max absolute delta ≥ 0 . 075 .CC-BY · From the PDF
Figure 3 Mean Hits@k for different k . Model size: BASE . The x-axis is on a logarithmic scale.
Figure 3 Mean Hits@k for different k . Model size: BASE . The x-axis is on a logarithmic scale.CC-BY · From the PDF
Figure 4 Schematic depiction of E-BERT-MLM in inference mode, predicting an entity vector for the name 'Platt' in context. Blue: E BERT wordpiece vectors. Red: E E -BERT entity vectors. The candidates A and their priors p ( a ) are given by the candidate generator. Assume that the entity Tony Adams (footballer) was decoded in a previous iteration (see 'Iterative refinement').
Figure 4 Schematic depiction of E-BERT-MLM in inference mode, predicting an entity vector for the name 'Platt' in context. Blue: E BERT wordpiece vectors. Red: E E -BERT entity vectors. The candidates A and their priors p ( a ) are given by the candidate generator. Assume that the entity Tony Adams (footballer) was decoded in a previous iteration (see 'Iterative refinement').CC-BY · From the PDF
Figure 5 AIDA dev set micro F1 after every epoch.
Figure 5 AIDA dev set micro F1 after every epoch.CC-BY · From the PDF
Figure 6 Relation classification: Expected maximum macro F1 (dev set) as a function of the number of hyperparameter configurations.
Figure 6 Relation classification: Expected maximum macro F1 (dev set) as a function of the number of hyperparameter configurations.CC-BY · From the PDF
Figure 7 Entity linking: Expected maximum micro F1 (dev set) as a function of the number of hyperparameter configurations.
Figure 7 Entity linking: Expected maximum micro F1 (dev set) as a function of the number of hyperparameter configurations.CC-BY · From the PDF

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Authors
Poerner, N., Waltinger, U., & Schütze, H.
Affiliations
  • Siemens (Germany) (DE)
  • Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München (DE)
ORCID
Venue
Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2020
Publisher
Association for Computational Linguistics
Published
2020
Pages
803-818
DOI
10.18653/v1/2020.findings-emnlp.71
OpenAlex
W3021191241
Cited by
146
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33
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2026: 5 · 2025: 11 · 2024: 21 · 2023: 24 · 2022: 34 · 2021: 34 · 2020: 15
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10.21
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conference paper
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en
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  • arXiv (Cornell University)
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  • Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Artificial Intelligence › Topic Modeling
  • Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition › Multimodal Machine Learning Applications
  • Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Artificial Intelligence › Natural Language Processing Techniques
Keywords
entity embeddings, BERT, knowledge injection, relation classification, entity linking

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