Table TABREF34 shows the inference speed of our method when implementing the sequnece modeling layer with the LSTM-based, CNN-based, and Transformer-based architecture, respectively.  From the table, we can see that our method has a much faster inference speed than Lattice-LSTM when using the LSTM-based sequence modeling layer, and it was also much faster than LR-CNN, which used an CNN architecture to implement the sequence modeling layer. And as expected, our method with the CNN-based sequence modeling layer showed some advantage in inference speed than those with the LSTM-based and Transformer-based sequence model layer. 
 Question:  What percentage of improvement in inference speed is obtained by the proposed method over the newest state-of-the-art methods?
Across 4 datasets, the best performing proposed model (CNN) achieved an average of 363% improvement over the state of the art method (LR-CNN)