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As the size of the datasets getting larger, accurately annotating such datasets is becoming more impractical due to the expensiveness on both time and economy. Therefore, crowd-sourcing has been widely adopted to alleviate the cost of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-21 Hansong Zhang , Shikun Li , Dan Zeng , Chenggang Yan , Shiming Ge

Annotating multi-class instances is a crucial task in the field of machine learning. Unfortunately, identifying the correct class label from a long sequence of candidate labels is time-consuming and laborious. To alleviate this problem, we…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-05 Meng Wei , Zhongnian Li , Yong Zhou , Qiaoyu Guo , Xinzheng Xu

Real-world data for classification is often labeled by multiple annotators. For analyzing such data, we introduce CROWDLAB, a straightforward approach to utilize any trained classifier to estimate: (1) A consensus label for each example…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-01-30 Hui Wen Goh , Ulyana Tkachenko , Jonas Mueller

Crowdsourcing is a relatively economic and efficient solution to collect annotations from the crowd through online platforms. Answers collected from workers with different expertise may be noisy and unreliable, and the quality of annotated…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-01-08 Jingzheng Tu , Guoxian Yu , Jun Wang , Carlotta Domeniconi , Xiangliang Zhang

Sentence-level classification and sequential labeling are two fundamental tasks in language understanding. While these two tasks are usually modeled separately, in reality, they are often correlated, for example in intent classification and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-10-02 Mingbo Ma , Kai Zhao , Liang Huang , Bing Xiang , Bowen Zhou

Learning from crowds describes that the annotations of training data are obtained with crowd-sourcing services. Multiple annotators each complete their own small part of the annotations, where labeling mistakes that depend on annotators…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2024-04-16 Shikun Li , Xiaobo Xia , Jiankang Deng , Shiming Ge , Tongliang Liu

Most existing crowd counting methods require object location-level annotation, i.e., placing a dot at the center of an object. While being simpler than the bounding-box or pixel-level annotation, obtaining this annotation is still…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-03 Yinjie Lei , Yan Liu , Pingping Zhang , Lingqiao Liu

Recently, there has been a burst in the number of research projects on human computation via crowdsourcing. Multiple choice (or labeling) questions could be referred to as a common type of problem which is solved by this approach. As an…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2014-09-04 Jafar Muhammadi , Hamid Reza Rabiee , Abbas Hosseini

We introduce SELECT (Scene tExt Label Errors deteCTion), a novel approach that leverages multi-modal training to detect label errors in real-world scene text datasets. Utilizing an image-text encoder and a character-level tokenizer, SELECT…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-17 Wenjun Liu , Qian Wu , Yifeng Hu , Yuke Li

We use parsing as sequence labeling as a common framework to learn across constituency and dependency syntactic abstractions. To do so, we cast the problem as multitask learning (MTL). First, we show that adding a parsing paradigm as an…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-01-08 Michalina Strzyz , David Vilares , Carlos Gómez-Rodríguez

Multi-label text classification (MLTC) is the task of assigning multiple labels to a given text, and has a wide range of application domains. Most existing approaches require an enormous amount of annotated data to learn a classifier and/or…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-09-26 Muberra Ozmen , Joseph Cotnareanu , Mark Coates

Recent approaches for weakly supervised instance segmentations depend on two components: (i) a pseudo label generation model that provides instances which are consistent with a given annotation; and (ii) an instance segmentation model,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-21 Aditya Arun , C. V. Jawahar , M. Pawan Kumar

Density estimation is one of the most widely used methods for crowd counting in which a deep learning model learns from head-annotated crowd images to estimate crowd density in unseen images. Typically, the learning performance of the model…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-08 Muhammad Asif Khan , Hamid Menouar , Ridha Hamila

Many recent approaches to natural language tasks are built on the remarkable abilities of large language models. Large language models can perform in-context learning, where they learn a new task from a few task demonstrations, without any…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-09-07 Hongjin Su , Jungo Kasai , Chen Henry Wu , Weijia Shi , Tianlu Wang , Jiayi Xin , Rui Zhang , Mari Ostendorf , Luke Zettlemoyer , Noah A. Smith , Tao Yu

Sequence classification is the task of predicting a class label given a sequence of observations. In many applications such as healthcare monitoring or intrusion detection, early classification is crucial to prompt intervention. In this…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-07 Maayan Shvo , Andrew C. Li , Rodrigo Toro Icarte , Sheila A. McIlraith

As a means of human-based computation, crowdsourcing has been widely used to annotate large-scale unlabeled datasets. One of the obvious challenges is how to aggregate these possibly noisy labels provided by a set of heterogeneous…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-20 Xuan Wei , Daniel Dajun Zeng , Junming Yin

Data collection from manual labeling provides domain-specific and task-aligned supervision for data-driven approaches, and a critical mass of well-annotated resources is required to achieve reasonable performance in natural language…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-11-09 Zhengyuan Liu , Hai Leong Chieu , Nancy F. Chen

Sequence labelling is the task of assigning categorical labels to a data sequence. In Natural Language Processing, sequence labelling can be applied to various fundamental problems, such as Part of Speech (POS) tagging, Named Entity…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-07-31 Mahtab Ahmed , Muhammad Rifayat Samee , Robert E. Mercer

To quickly obtain new labeled data, we can choose crowdsourcing as an alternative way at lower cost in a short time. But as an exchange, crowd annotations from non-experts may be of lower quality than those from experts. In this paper, we…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-01-17 YaoSheng Yang , Meishan Zhang , Wenliang Chen , Wei Zhang , Haofen Wang , Min Zhang

We propose a meta-learning method for learning from multiple noisy annotators. In many applications such as crowdsourcing services, labels for supervised learning are given by multiple annotators. Since the annotators have different skills…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-13 Atsutoshi Kumagai , Tomoharu Iwata , Taishi Nishiyama , Yasutoshi Ida , Yasuhiro Fujiwara