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A Review on Language Models as Knowledge Bases

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arxiv 2204.06031 v1 pith:E3WVRJ45 submitted 2022-04-12 cs.CL cs.AI

classification cs.CLcs.AI
keywords knowledgeaspectsbaseslanguagemodelsreviewactingadvantage
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Recently, there has been a surge of interest in the NLP community on the use of pretrained Language Models (LMs) as Knowledge Bases (KBs). Researchers have shown that LMs trained on a sufficiently large (web) corpus will encode a significant amount of knowledge implicitly in its parameters. The resulting LM can be probed for different kinds of knowledge and thus acting as a KB. This has a major advantage over traditional KBs in that this method requires no human supervision. In this paper, we present a set of aspects that we deem a LM should have to fully act as a KB, and review the recent literature with respect to those aspects.

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