Entity Word Recognition via Question-Answer Model

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Solution Overview

Problem

Existing methods for recognizing entity words in professional documents suffer from a low recall rate due to the limitations of professional terminology tables, which restrict the coverage and accuracy of entity word mining.

Innovation Solution

A method and apparatus utilizing a question-answer model to generate entity word questions based on categories, segment documents, and input them into a pre-trained model to improve recall and accuracy, enabling high scalability and low-cost entity word recognition for knowledge map construction and retrieval.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Measurement precision

If professional terminology tables are used for entity word recognition, then the method is simple and easy to implement, but the recall rate is low due to limited coverage

Engineering Contradiction:
Improverecall rateVSAvoidsystem complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
Measurement precisionVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The patent replaces the traditional mechanical approach of using professional terminology tables with a deep learning-based question-answer model. This substitution enables the system to automatically understand and extract entity words from unstructured text, significantly improving recall rate without requiring manual vocabulary construction or maintenance of terminology tables.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #28Mechanics substitution (Replace mechanical system)

Solution Approach 2:

The patent transforms the entity word recognition task from a traditional matching problem into a question-answering task by parameterizing the input as natural language questions. This parameter change allows the model to handle diverse entity types and relationships flexibly, improving both recall and adaptability while maintaining reasonable system complexity through pre-trained models.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #35Parameter changes

2Measurement precision

If manual vocabulary construction is performed to improve entity word coverage, then the recall rate increases, but the time consumption and cost increase significantly

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveentity word coverageVSAvoidtime consumption
Core Design Contradiction:
Measurement precisionVSLoss of time

Solution Approach 1:

The patent employs pre-trained question-answer models that have been preliminarily trained on large-scale corpora before deployment. This preliminary action enables the model to possess general entity recognition capabilities upfront, eliminating the need for time-consuming manual vocabulary construction while maintaining high entity word coverage through transfer learning and adaptation to specific domains.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

Solution Approach 2:

The system enables automatic entity word extraction through the question-answer model without requiring manual intervention for vocabulary construction or maintenance. The model self-adapts to different domains and entity types by processing training data automatically, significantly reducing both time consumption and labor costs while achieving comprehensive entity word coverage.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #25Self-service

3Adaptability or versatility

If traditional entity word recognition methods are used, then the system complexity is low, but the intelligence and adaptability of recognition are insufficient

Engineering Contradiction:
Improverecognition intelligenceVSAvoidsystem complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
Adaptability or versatilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The patent replaces simple keyword matching and rule-based methods with an intelligent deep learning question-answer model. This substitution dramatically improves recognition intelligence and adaptability, enabling the system to understand contextual meanings, handle ambiguous entities, and adapt to different domains automatically, while the use of pre-trained models keeps the deployed system complexity manageable.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #28Mechanics substitution (Replace mechanical system)

Data Source

PatentUS11361002B2Method and apparatus for recognizing entity word, and storage medium
Publication Date: 2022.06.14 BEIJING BAIDU NETCOM SCI & TECH CO LTD
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AI summary

The disclosure discloses a method and an apparatus for recognizing an entity word. The method includes: obtaining an entity word category and a document to be recognized; generating an entity word question based on the entity word category; segmenting the document to be recognized to generate a plurality of candidate sentences; inputting the entity word question and the plurality of candidate sentences into a question-answer model trained in advance to obtain an entity word recognizing result; and obtaining an entity word set corresponding to the entity word question based on the entity word recognizing result.