Person Entity Attribute Extraction Based on Siamese Network

Entity attribute extraction, which converts chaotic text data to structured knowledge, plays an important role in natural language processing (NLP). Many previous studies proved that the representation of text has a significant impact on the results of attribute extraction. In this paper, we propose a novel model to obtain the discriminative representation of sentences by applying the Siamese architecture. Specifically, we simultaneously input two variable-length sentences in the training stage of our model, namely, the main sentence and its similar or dissimilar partner. This scheme of pair is beneficial for entity attribute extraction. First, the entity attribute extraction community suffers the insufficient but expensive labeled data, the two input sets produce much more samples for the representation learning and can be treated as a useful data augmentation method. More importantly, the co-learning by the Siamese architecture achieves more interesting embedding than the separate way, since the informative relation between the focused sentence and its partner help the representation learning to explore more essential semantics and keep stable to the variation of wording and syntax of a sentence. The experiments on the Wikipedia data show that our model takes advantage of the Siamese architecture for sentence embedding and achieves significant improvements on attribute extraction as compared with baselines. To the best of our knowledge, we are the first to introduce the Siamese network into the person entity attribute extraction, which we proved to achieve the state of the art.