提升科学论文问题与方法句提取效果,解决小样本和形式依赖问题。
Extracting Problem and Method Sentence from Scientific Papers: A Context-enhanced Transformer Using Formulaic Expression Desensitization
- 通过公式化表达去敏感化生成合成数据,减少模型对固定句式的依赖。
- 提出上下文增强的Transformer,利用上下文提升关键信息识别准确率。
- 在两个数据集上提升3.71%和2.67%的宏F1,适合科研文本结构分析者。
海量科学论文催生了从大量文本中识别核心内容的需求。科学研究本质上是从提出问题到使用方法的过程。为理解论文主旨,本文聚焦于问题句与方法句的抽取。人工标注句子耗时费力,导致数据集规模小,限制模型学习信息量,使模型过度依赖特定表达形式,降低泛化能力。本文从三方面应对:扩大数据规模、减少对特定形式的依赖、丰富句子内部信息。为此,提出公式化表达(FE)去敏感化概念及基于此的数据增强方法,生成合成数据并降低模型对FE的依赖;同时设计上下文增强变压器,利用上下文评估目标句中词语重要性,抑制上下文噪声。此外,采用大语言模型(LLM)的上下文学习(ICL)方法进行实验。定量与定性结果表明,所提模型在两个科学论文数据集上的宏F1分别提升3.71%和2.67%,优于基线模型。而基于LLM的ICL方法不适用于该任务。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
Billions of scientific papers lead to the need to identify essential parts from the massive text. Scientific research is an activity from putting forward problems to using methods. To learn the main idea from scientific papers, we focus on extracting problem and method sentences. Annotating sentences within scientific papers is labor-intensive, resulting in small-scale datasets that limit the amount of information models can learn. This limited information leads models to rely heavily on specific forms, which in turn reduces their generalization capabilities. This paper addresses the problems caused by small-scale datasets from three perspectives: increasing dataset scale, reducing dependence on specific forms, and enriching the information within sentences. To implement the first two ideas, we introduce the concept of formulaic expression (FE) desensitization and propose FE desensitization-based data augmenters to generate synthetic data and reduce models' reliance on FEs. For the third idea, we propose a context-enhanced transformer that utilizes context to measure the importance of words in target sentences and to reduce noise in the context. Furthermore, this paper conducts experiments using large language model (LLM) based in-context learning (ICL) methods. Quantitative and qualitative experiments demonstrate that our proposed models achieve a higher macro F1 score compared to the baseline models on two scientific paper datasets, with improvements of 3.71% and 2.67%, respectively. The LLM based ICL methods are found to be not suitable for the task of problem and method extraction.
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