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A cost-reducing partial labeling estimator in text classification problem

Machine Learning 2019-06-11 v1 Information Retrieval Machine Learning

Abstract

We propose a new approach to address the text classification problems when learning with partial labels is beneficial. Instead of offering each training sample a set of candidate labels, we assign negative-oriented labels to the ambiguous training examples if they are unlikely fall into certain classes. We construct our new maximum likelihood estimators with self-correction property, and prove that under some conditions, our estimators converge faster. Also we discuss the advantages of applying one of our estimator to a fully supervised learning problem. The proposed method has potential applicability in many areas, such as crowdsourcing, natural language processing and medical image analysis.

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@article{arxiv.1906.03768,
  title  = {A cost-reducing partial labeling estimator in text classification problem},
  author = {Jiangning Chen and Zhibo Dai and Juntao Duan and Qianli Hu and Ruilin Li and Heinrich Matzinger and Ionel Popescu and Haoyan Zhai},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1906.03768},
  year   = {2019}
}
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