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BNU: A BALANCE-NORMALIZATION-UNCERTAINTY MODEL FOR INCREMENTAL EVENT DETECTION
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- Jia Li
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- 7 May 2022 - 12:13pm
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- Poster
- Document Year:
- 2022
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- Presenters:
- Jia Li
- Paper Code:
- SU3.E.4
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Event detection is challenging in real-world application since new events continually occur and old events still exist which may result in repeated labeling for old events. There- fore, incremental event detection is essential where a model continuously learns new events and meanwhile prevents per- formance from degrading on old events. Although existing incremental event detection models achieve impressive per- formance, they face the data imbalance problem between old classes and new classes, and have the knowledge transfer prob- lem which cannot adequately utilize the knowledge provided by the previous model and data. To this end, we propose a Balance-Normalization-Uncertainty (BNU) model to address above problems. Specifically, in order to mitigate the adverse effects of data imbalance, we incorporate a balanced fine- tuning stage and a cosine normalization module. Meanwhile, we consider aleatoric uncertainty to preserve previous knowl- edge while training for new events. Experimental results show that our proposed method resolves the above challenges effec- tively and achieves consistent and significant performance on ACE and TAC KBP datasets.