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Based on recent advances in natural language modeling and those in text generation capabilities, we propose a novel data augmentation method for text classification tasks. We use a powerful pre-trained neural network model to artificially…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-11-28 Ateret Anaby-Tavor , Boaz Carmeli , Esther Goldbraich , Amir Kantor , George Kour , Segev Shlomov , Naama Tepper , Naama Zwerdling

Named Entity Recognition (NER) is a critical task in natural language processing, yet it remains particularly challenging for discontinuous entities. The primary difficulty lies in text segmentation, as traditional methods often missegment…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-01-01 Wen-Fang Su , Hsiao-Wei Chou , Wen-Yang Lin

In this paper, we explore and compare multiple solutions to the problem of data augmentation in image classification. Previous work has demonstrated the effectiveness of data augmentation through simple techniques, such as cropping,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-12-14 Luis Perez , Jason Wang

Real-world text classification tasks often require many labeled training examples that are expensive to obtain. Recent advancements in machine teaching, specifically the data programming paradigm, facilitate the creation of training data…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-02-05 Neil Mallinar , Abhishek Shah , Tin Kam Ho , Rajendra Ugrani , Ayush Gupta

Data augmentation is an effective way to improve the performance of many neural text generation models. However, current data augmentation methods need to define or choose proper data mapping functions that map the original samples into the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-05-31 Wei Bi , Huayang Li , Jiacheng Huang

In many cases of machine learning, research suggests that the development of training data might have a higher relevance than the choice and modelling of classifiers themselves. Thus, data augmentation methods have been developed to improve…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-07-25 Markus Bayer , Marc-André Kaufhold , Björn Buchhold , Marcel Keller , Jörg Dallmeyer , Christian Reuter

While data augmentation is an important trick to boost the accuracy of deep learning methods in computer vision tasks, its study in natural language tasks is still very limited. In this paper, we present a novel data augmentation method for…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-05-28 Jinhua Zhu , Fei Gao , Lijun Wu , Yingce Xia , Tao Qin , Wengang Zhou , Xueqi Cheng , Tie-Yan Liu

Conventional image classifiers are trained by randomly sampling mini-batches of images. To achieve state-of-the-art performance, practitioners use sophisticated data augmentation schemes to expand the amount of training data available for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-23 Renkun Ni , Micah Goldblum , Amr Sharaf , Kezhi Kong , Tom Goldstein

Data augmentation (DA) techniques aim to increase data variability, and thus train deep networks with better generalisation. The pioneering AutoAugment automated the search for optimal DA policies with reinforcement learning. However,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-31 Yonggang Li , Guosheng Hu , Yongtao Wang , Timothy Hospedales , Neil M. Robertson , Yongxin Yang

Text classification is a representative downstream task of natural language processing, and has exhibited excellent performance since the advent of pre-trained language models based on Transformer architecture. However, in pre-trained…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-04-07 Byeong-Cheol Jo , Tak-Sung Heo , Yeongjoon Park , Yongmin Yoo , Won Ik Cho , Kyungsun Kim

Test-time augmentation -- the aggregation of predictions across transformed examples of test inputs -- is an established technique to improve the performance of image classification models. Importantly, TTA can be used to improve model…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-29 Helen Lu , Divya Shanmugam , Harini Suresh , John Guttag

Named Entity Recognition (NER) is a machine learning task that traditionally relies on supervised learning and annotated data. Acquiring such data is often a challenge, particularly in specialized fields like medical, legal, and financial…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-01 Arthur Elwing Torres , Edleno Silva de Moura , Altigran Soares da Silva , Mario A. Nascimento , Filipe Mesquita

Contextual ranking models have delivered impressive performance improvements over classical models in the document ranking task. However, these highly over-parameterized models tend to be data-hungry and require large amounts of data even…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-11-28 Abhijit Anand , Jurek Leonhardt , Jaspreet Singh , Koustav Rudra , Avishek Anand

Recently, data augmentation (DA) has emerged as a method for leveraging domain knowledge to inexpensively generate additional data in reinforcement learning (RL) tasks, often yielding substantial improvements in data efficiency. While prior…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-19 Nicholas E. Corrado , Josiah P. Hanna

Rule-based text data augmentation is widely used for NLP tasks due to its simplicity. However, this method can potentially damage the original meaning of the text, ultimately hurting the performance of the model. To overcome this…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-02-09 Juhwan Choi , Kyohoon Jin , Junho Lee , Sangmin Song , Youngbin Kim

We present data augmentation techniques for process extraction tasks in scientific publications. We cast the process extraction task as a sequence labeling task where we identify all the entities in a sentence and label them according to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-04-16 Yuni Susanti

In this work we investigate the impact of applying textual data augmentation tasks to low resource machine translation. There has been recent interest in investigating approaches for training systems for languages with limited resources and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-06-14 Catherine Gitau , VUkosi Marivate

Deep artificial neural networks require a large corpus of training data in order to effectively learn, where collection of such training data is often expensive and laborious. Data augmentation overcomes this issue by artificially inflating…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-08-22 Luke Taylor , Geoff Nitschke

Data augmentation techniques have been widely used to improve machine learning performance as they enhance the generalization capability of models. In this work, to generate high quality synthetic data for low-resource tagging tasks, we…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-11-04 Bosheng Ding , Linlin Liu , Lidong Bing , Canasai Kruengkrai , Thien Hai Nguyen , Shafiq Joty , Luo Si , Chunyan Miao

Text-attributed graph (TAG) provides a text description for each graph node, and few- and zero-shot node classification on TAGs have many applications in fields such as academia and social networks. Existing work utilizes various…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-05-14 Yuxiang Wang , Xiao Yan , Shiyu Jin , Quanqing Xu , Chuang Hu , Yuanyuan Zhu , Bo Du , Jia Wu , Jiawei Jiang