@inproceedings{dong-etal-2023-demonsf,
title = "{D}emo{NSF}: A Multi-task Demonstration-based Generative Framework for Noisy Slot Filling Task",
author = "Dong, Guanting and
Hui, Tingfeng and
GongQue, Zhuoma and
Zhao, Jinxu and
Guo, Daichi and
Zhao, Gang and
He, Keqing and
Xu, Weiran",
editor = "Bouamor, Houda and
Pino, Juan and
Bali, Kalika",
booktitle = "Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2023",
month = dec,
year = "2023",
address = "Singapore",
publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
url = "https://aclanthology.org/2023.findings-emnlp.705/",
doi = "10.18653/v1/2023.findings-emnlp.705",
pages = "10506--10518",
abstract = "Recently, prompt-based generative frameworks have shown impressive capabilities in sequence labeling tasks. However, in practical dialogue scenarios, relying solely on simplistic templates and traditional corpora presents a challenge for these methods in generalizing to unknown input perturbations. To address this gap, we propose a multi-task demonstration-based generative framework for noisy slot filling, named DemoNSF. Specifically, we introduce three noisy auxiliary tasks, namely noisy recovery (NR), random mask (RM), and hybrid discrimination (HD), to implicitly capture semantic structural information of input perturbations at different granularities. In the downstream main task, we design a noisy demonstration construction strategy for the generative framework, which explicitly incorporates task-specific information and perturbed distribution during training and inference. Experiments on two benchmarks demonstrate that DemoNSF outperforms all baseline methods and achieves strong generalization. Further analysis provides empirical guidance for the practical application of generative frameworks. Our code is released at https://github.com/dongguanting/Demo-NSF."
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%T DemoNSF: A Multi-task Demonstration-based Generative Framework for Noisy Slot Filling Task
%A Dong, Guanting
%A Hui, Tingfeng
%A GongQue, Zhuoma
%A Zhao, Jinxu
%A Guo, Daichi
%A Zhao, Gang
%A He, Keqing
%A Xu, Weiran
%Y Bouamor, Houda
%Y Pino, Juan
%Y Bali, Kalika
%S Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2023
%D 2023
%8 December
%I Association for Computational Linguistics
%C Singapore
%F dong-etal-2023-demonsf
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%P 10506-10518
Markdown (Informal)
[DemoNSF: A Multi-task Demonstration-based Generative Framework for Noisy Slot Filling Task](https://aclanthology.org/2023.findings-emnlp.705/) (Dong et al., Findings 2023)
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