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Training a Neural Network in a Low-Resource Setting on Automatically Annotated Noisy Data

Machine Learning 2018-07-24 v2 Computation and Language Machine Learning

Abstract

Manually labeled corpora are expensive to create and often not available for low-resource languages or domains. Automatic labeling approaches are an alternative way to obtain labeled data in a quicker and cheaper way. However, these labels often contain more errors which can deteriorate a classifier's performance when trained on this data. We propose a noise layer that is added to a neural network architecture. This allows modeling the noise and train on a combination of clean and noisy data. We show that in a low-resource NER task we can improve performance by up to 35% by using additional, noisy data and handling the noise.

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@article{arxiv.1807.00745,
  title  = {Training a Neural Network in a Low-Resource Setting on Automatically Annotated Noisy Data},
  author = {Michael A. Hedderich and Dietrich Klakow},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1807.00745},
  year   = {2018}
}

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In Proceedings of the Workshop on Deep Learning Approaches for Low-Resource NLP 2018

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