Volume 11, Number 07, May 2021

Double Multi-Head Attention-Based Capsule Network for Relation Classification

  Authors

Hongjun Heng and Renjie Li, Civil Aviation University of China, China

  Abstract

Semantic relation classification is an important task in the field of nature language processing. The existing neural network relation classification models introduce attention mechanism to increase the importance of significant features, but part of these attention models only have one head which is not enough to capture more distinctive fine-grained features. Models based on RNN (Recurrent Neural Network) usually use single-layer structure and have limited feature extraction capability. Current RNN-based capsule networks have problem of improper handling of noise which increase complexity of network. Therefore, we propose a capsule network relation classification model based on double multi-head attention. In this model, we introduce an auxiliary BiGRU (Bidirectional Gated Recurrent Unit) to make up for the lack of feature extraction performance of single BiGRU, improve the bilinear attention through double multihead mechanism to enable the model to obtain more information of sentence from different representation subspace and instantiate capsules with sentence-level features to alleviate noise impact. Experiments on the SemEval-2010 Task 8 benchmark dataset show that our model outperforms most of previous state-of-the-art neural network models and achieves the comparable performance with F1 score of 85.3% in capsule network.

  Keywords

Relation Classification, Double Multi-head Attention, Auxiliary BiGRU, Capsule Network.