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Multi-task Learning of Pairwise Sequence Classification Tasks Over Disparate Label Spaces

Computation and Language 2018-04-10 v2 Neural and Evolutionary Computing Machine Learning

Abstract

We combine multi-task learning and semi-supervised learning by inducing a joint embedding space between disparate label spaces and learning transfer functions between label embeddings, enabling us to jointly leverage unlabelled data and auxiliary, annotated datasets. We evaluate our approach on a variety of sequence classification tasks with disparate label spaces. We outperform strong single and multi-task baselines and achieve a new state-of-the-art for topic-based sentiment analysis.

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@article{arxiv.1802.09913,
  title  = {Multi-task Learning of Pairwise Sequence Classification Tasks Over Disparate Label Spaces},
  author = {Isabelle Augenstein and Sebastian Ruder and Anders Søgaard},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1802.09913},
  year   = {2018}
}

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To appear at NAACL 2018 (long)

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