Paradigm Shift in Natural Language Processing

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2109.12575v1
• Date: Sun, 26 Sep 2021 11:55:23 GMT
• Title: Paradigm Shift in Natural Language Processing
• Authors: Tianxiang Sun, Xiangyang Liu, Xipeng Qiu, Xuanjing Huang
• Abstract summary: In the era of deep learning, modeling for most NLP tasks has converged to several mainstream paradigms. Recent years have observed a rising trend of Paradigm Shift, which is solving one NLP task by reformulating it as another one. Some of these paradigms have shown great potential to unify a large number of NLP tasks, making it possible to build a single model to handle diverse tasks.
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• Abstract: In the era of deep learning, modeling for most NLP tasks has converged to several mainstream paradigms. For example, we usually adopt the sequence labeling paradigm to solve a bundle of tasks such as POS-tagging, NER, Chunking, and adopt the classification paradigm to solve tasks like sentiment analysis. With the rapid progress of pre-trained language models, recent years have observed a rising trend of Paradigm Shift, which is solving one NLP task by reformulating it as another one. Paradigm shift has achieved great success on many tasks, becoming a promising way to improve model performance. Moreover, some of these paradigms have shown great potential to unify a large number of NLP tasks, making it possible to build a single model to handle diverse tasks. In this paper, we review such phenomenon of paradigm shifts in recent years, highlighting several paradigms that have the potential to solve different NLP tasks.

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