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Main Authors: Nagayama, Kotaro, Kato, Shota, Kano, Manabu
Format: Preprint
Published: 2024
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.14962
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author Nagayama, Kotaro
Kato, Shota
Kano, Manabu
author_facet Nagayama, Kotaro
Kato, Shota
Kano, Manabu
contents The extraction of variable definitions from scientific and technical papers is essential for understanding these documents. However, the characteristics of variable definitions, such as the length and the words that make up the definition, differ among fields, which leads to differences in the performance of existing extraction methods across fields. Although preparing training data specific to each field can improve the performance of the methods, it is costly to create high-quality training data. To address this challenge, this study proposes a new method that generates new definition sentences from template sentences and variable-definition pairs in the training data. The proposed method has been tested on papers about chemical processes, and the results show that the model trained with the definition sentences generated by the proposed method achieved a higher accuracy of 89.6%, surpassing existing models.
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spellingShingle Data Augmentation Method Utilizing Template Sentences for Variable Definition Extraction
Nagayama, Kotaro
Kato, Shota
Kano, Manabu
Computation and Language
The extraction of variable definitions from scientific and technical papers is essential for understanding these documents. However, the characteristics of variable definitions, such as the length and the words that make up the definition, differ among fields, which leads to differences in the performance of existing extraction methods across fields. Although preparing training data specific to each field can improve the performance of the methods, it is costly to create high-quality training data. To address this challenge, this study proposes a new method that generates new definition sentences from template sentences and variable-definition pairs in the training data. The proposed method has been tested on papers about chemical processes, and the results show that the model trained with the definition sentences generated by the proposed method achieved a higher accuracy of 89.6%, surpassing existing models.
title Data Augmentation Method Utilizing Template Sentences for Variable Definition Extraction
topic Computation and Language
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.14962