Review of Knowledge-Enhanced Pre-trained Language Models

Abstract

The knowledge-enhanced pre-trained language models attempt to use the structured knowledge stored in the knowledge graph to strengthen the pre-trained language models, so that they can learn not only the general semantic knowledge from the free text, but also the factual entity knowledge behind the text. In this way, the enhanced models can effectively solve downstream knowledge-driven tasks. Although this is a promising research direction, the current works are still in the exploratory stage, and there is no comprehensive summary and systematic arrangement. This paper aims to address the lack of comprehensive reviews of this direction. To this end, on the basis of summarizing and sorting out a large number of relevant works, this paper firstly explains the background information from three aspects: the reasons, the advantages, and the difficulties of introducing knowledge, summarizes the basic concepts involved in the knowledge-enhanced pre-trained language models. Then, it discusses three types of knowledge enhancement methods: using knowledge to expand input features, using knowledge to modify model architecture, and using knowledge to constrain training tasks. Finally, it counts the scores of various knowledge enhanced pre-trained language models on several evaluation tasks, analyzes the performance, the current challenges, and possible future directions of knowledge-enhanced pre-trained language models.

Keywords

• |knowledge graph|pre-trained language models|natural language processing