Reinforcement Learning for Transition-Based Mention Detection

03/13/2017
by   Georgiana Dinu, et al.
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This paper describes an application of reinforcement learning to the mention detection task. We define a novel action-based formulation for the mention detection task, in which a model can flexibly revise past labeling decisions by grouping together tokens and assigning partial mention labels. We devise a method to create mention-level episodes and we train a model by rewarding correctly labeled complete mentions, irrespective of the inner structure created. The model yields results which are on par with a competitive supervised counterpart while being more flexible in terms of achieving targeted behavior through reward modeling and generating internal mention structure, especially on longer mentions.

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