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Distant supervision (DS) is a promising approach for relation extraction but often suffers from the noisy label problem. Traditional DS methods usually represent an entity pair as a bag of sentences and denoise labels using multi-instance…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-12-10 Lingyong Yan , Xianpei Han , Le Sun , Fangchao Liu , Ning Bian

In recent years, offensive, abusive and hateful language, sexism, racism and other types of aggressive and cyberbullying behavior have been manifesting with increased frequency, and in many online social media platforms. In fact, past…

The success of deep learning requires high-quality annotated and massive data. However, the size and the quality of a dataset are usually a trade-off in practice, as data collection and cleaning are expensive and time-consuming. In…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-06-16 Ruibin Yuan , Hanzhi Yin , Yi Wang , Yifan He , Yushi Ye , Lei Zhang , Zhizheng Wu

Commonsense knowledge relations are crucial for advanced NLU tasks. We examine the learnability of such relations as represented in CONCEPTNET, taking into account their specific properties, which can make relation classification difficult:…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-05-15 Maria Becker , Michael Staniek , Vivi Nastase , Anette Frank

With the development of mobile social networks, more and more crowdsourced data are generated on the Web or collected from real-world sensing. The fragment, heterogeneous, and noisy nature of online/offline crowdsourced data, however, makes…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2019-08-08 Bin Guo , Huihui Chen , Yan Liu , Chao Chen , Qi Han , Zhiwen Yu

Distant supervision is a widely applied approach to automatic training of relation extraction systems and has the advantage that it can generate large amounts of labelled data with minimal effort. However, this data may contain errors and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2015-09-15 Roland Roller , Eneko Agirre , Aitor Soroa , Mark Stevenson

Distant supervision for relation extraction provides uniform bag labels for each sentence inside the bag, while accurate sentence labels are important for downstream applications that need the exact relation type. Directly using bag labels…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-06-23 Ruotian Ma , Tao Gui , Linyang Li , Qi Zhang , Yaqian Zhou , Xuanjing Huang

Existing relation classification methods that rely on distant supervision assume that a bag of sentences mentioning an entity pair are all describing a relation for the entity pair. Such methods, performing classification at the bag level,…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2018-08-27 Jun Feng , Minlie Huang , Li Zhao , Yang Yang , Xiaoyan Zhu

Relation classification (RC) task is one of fundamental tasks of information extraction, aiming to detect the relation information between entity pairs in unstructured natural language text and generate structured data in the form of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-01-12 Yan Xiao , Yaochu Jin , Kuangrong Hao

Multi-label text classification involves extracting all relevant labels from a sentence. Given the unordered nature of these labels, we propose approaching the problem as a set prediction task. To address the correlation between labels, we…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-03-15 Du Xinkai , Han Quanjie , Sun Yalin , Lv Chao , Sun Maosong

Reliable object perception is necessary for general-purpose service robots. Open-vocabulary detectors struggle to generalize beyond a few classes and fully supervised training of object detectors requires time-intensive annotations. We…

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This paper introduces a novel crowdsourcing worker selection algorithm, enhancing annotation quality and reducing costs. Unlike previous studies targeting simpler tasks, this study contends with the complexities of label interdependencies…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-07-30 Yujie Wang , Chao Huang , Liner Yang , Zhixuan Fang , Yaping Huang , Yang Liu , Jingsi Yu , Erhong Yang

Microblog classification has received a lot of attention in recent years. Different classification tasks have been investigated, most of them focusing on classifying microblogs into a small number of classes (five or less) using a training…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-09-21 Walid Magdy , Hassan Sajjad , Tarek El-Ganainy , Fabrizio Sebastiani

Crowdworking is a cost-efficient solution for acquiring class labels. Since these labels are subject to noise, various approaches to learning from crowds have been proposed. Typically, these approaches are evaluated with default…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-18 Marek Herde , Lukas Lührs , Denis Huseljic , Bernhard Sick

Subjective tasks in NLP have been mostly relegated to objective standards, where the gold label is decided by taking the majority vote. This obfuscates annotator disagreement and the inherent uncertainty of the label. We argue that…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-08-27 Urja Khurana , Eric Nalisnick , Antske Fokkens , Swabha Swayamdipta

While crowdsourcing has emerged as a practical solution for labeling large datasets, it presents a significant challenge in learning accurate models due to noisy labels from annotators with varying levels of expertise. Existing methods…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-27 Hui Guo , Grace Y. Yi , Boyu Wang

Crowdsourced, or human computation based clustering algorithms usually rely on relative distance comparisons, as these are easier to elicit from human workers than absolute distance information. A relative distance comparison is a statement…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-09-26 Antti Ukkonen

Sentiment classification (SC) often suffers from low-resource challenges such as domain-specific contexts, imbalanced label distributions, and few-shot scenarios. The potential of the diffusion language model (LM) for textual data…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-09-24 Zhuowei Chen , Lianxi Wang , Yuben Wu , Xinfeng Liao , Yujia Tian , Junyang Zhong

The predictive performance of supervised learning algorithms depends on the quality of labels. In a typical label collection process, multiple annotators provide subjective noisy estimates of the "truth" under the influence of their varying…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-06-18 Ryutaro Tanno , Ardavan Saeedi , Swami Sankaranarayanan , Daniel C. Alexander , Nathan Silberman

Large-scale labeled dataset is the indispensable fuel that ignites the AI revolution as we see today. Most such datasets are constructed using crowdsourcing services such as Amazon Mechanical Turk which provides noisy labels from…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2022-03-15 Chong Liu , Yu-Xiang Wang