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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

Due to the notorious modality imbalance problem, multimodal learning (MML) leads to the phenomenon of optimization imbalance, thus struggling to achieve satisfactory performance. Recently, some representative methods have been proposed to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-08 Qing-Yuan Jiang , Zhouyang Chi , Yang Yang

To address the modality learning degeneration caused by modality imbalance, existing multimodal learning~(MML) approaches primarily attempt to balance the optimization process of each modality from the perspective of model learning.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-07 Qingyuan Jiang , Zhouyang Chi , Xiao Ma , Qirong Mao , Yang Yang , Jinhui Tang

When performing named entity recognition (NER), entity length is variable and dependent on a specific domain or dataset. Pre-trained language models (PLMs) are used to solve NER tasks and tend to be biased toward dataset patterns such as…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-01-12 Minbyul Jeong , Jaewoo Kang

In-context learning (ICL) enables large language models (LLMs) to perform new tasks using only a few demonstrations. However, in Named Entity Recognition (NER), existing ICL methods typically rely on task-agnostic semantic similarity for…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-10-30 Fan Bai , Hamid Hassanzadeh , Ardavan Saeedi , Mark Dredze

For the last two decades, oversampling has been employed to overcome the challenge of learning from imbalanced datasets. Many approaches to solving this challenge have been offered in the literature. Oversampling, on the other hand, is a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-09 Ahmad B. Hassanat , Ahmad S. Tarawneh , Ghada A. Altarawneh , Abdullah Almuhaimeed

This paper presents a comprehensive study to efficiently build named entity recognition (NER) systems when a small number of in-domain labeled data is available. Based upon recent Transformer-based self-supervised pre-trained language…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-01-01 Jiaxin Huang , Chunyuan Li , Krishan Subudhi , Damien Jose , Shobana Balakrishnan , Weizhu Chen , Baolin Peng , Jianfeng Gao , Jiawei Han

Learning general representations of text is a fundamental problem for many natural language understanding (NLU) tasks. Previously, researchers have proposed to use language model pre-training and multi-task learning to learn robust…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-08-29 Zi-Yi Dou , Keyi Yu , Antonios Anastasopoulos

For languages with no annotated resources, unsupervised transfer of natural language processing models such as named-entity recognition (NER) from resource-rich languages would be an appealing capability. However, differences in words and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-09-13 Jiateng Xie , Zhilin Yang , Graham Neubig , Noah A. Smith , Jaime Carbonell

We present a lightweight approach to sequence classification using Ensemble Methods for Hidden Markov Models (HMMs). HMMs offer significant advantages in scenarios with imbalanced or smaller datasets due to their simplicity,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-09-13 Maxime Kawawa-Beaudan , Srijan Sood , Soham Palande , Ganapathy Mani , Tucker Balch , Manuela Veloso

This study proposes a method for imbalanced data classification based on deep probabilistic graphical models (DPGMs) to solve the problem that traditional methods have insufficient learning ability for minority class samples. To address the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-09 Yujia Lou , Jie Liu , Yuan Sheng , Jiawei Wang , Yiwei Zhang , Yaokun Ren

Incremental learning suffers from two challenging problems; forgetting of old knowledge and intransigence on learning new knowledge. Prediction by the model incrementally learned with a subset of the dataset are thus uncertain and the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-02-05 Dahyun Kim , Jihwan Bae , Yeonsik Jo , Jonghyun Choi

An approach to the construction of classifiers from imbalanced datasets is described. A dataset is imbalanced if the classification categories are not approximately equally represented. Often real-world data sets are predominately composed…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2011-11-25 N. V. Chawla , K. W. Bowyer , L. O. Hall , W. P. Kegelmeyer

This study improves the performance of neural named entity recognition by a margin of up to 11% in F-score on the example of a low-resource language like German, thereby outperforming existing baselines and establishing a new…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-07-30 Sajawel Ahmed , Alexander Mehler

Detecting out of policy speech (OOPS) content is important but difficult. While machine learning is a powerful tool to tackle this challenging task, it is hard to break the performance ceiling due to factors like quantity and quality…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-25 Apostol Vassilev , Honglan Jin , Munawar Hasan

Meta-Learning (ML) has proven to be a useful tool for training Few-Shot Learning (FSL) algorithms by exposure to batches of tasks sampled from a meta-dataset. However, the standard training procedure overlooks the dynamic nature of the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-04-13 Mateusz Ochal , Massimiliano Patacchiola , Amos Storkey , Jose Vazquez , Sen Wang

Named Entity Recognition (NER) aims to extract and classify entity mentions in the text into pre-defined types (e.g., organization or person name). Recently, many works have been proposed to shape the NER as a machine reading comprehension…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-09-21 Yibo Wang , Wenting Zhao , Yao Wan , Zhongfen Deng , Philip S. Yu

Two-class classification problems are often characterized by an imbalance between the number of majority and minority datapoints resulting in poor classification of the minority class in particular. Traditional approaches, such as…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-11 Karen Medlin , Sven Leyffer , Krishnan Raghavan

In real-world applications, as data availability increases, obtaining labeled data for machine learning (ML) projects remains challenging due to the high costs and intensive efforts required for data annotation. Many ML projects,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-24 Ismail Hakki Karaman , Gulser Koksal , Levent Eriskin , Salih Salihoglu

Data imbalance, that is the disproportion between the number of training observations coming from different classes, remains one of the most significant challenges affecting contemporary machine learning. The negative impact of data…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-11-30 Michał Koziarski