Temporal-aware Language Representation Learning From Crowdsourced Labels

Yang Hao, Xiao Zhai, Wenbiao Ding, Zitao Liu


Abstract
Learning effective language representations from crowdsourced labels is crucial for many real-world machine learning tasks. A challenging aspect of this problem is that the quality of crowdsourced labels suffer high intra- and inter-observer variability. Since the high-capacity deep neural networks can easily memorize all disagreements among crowdsourced labels, directly applying existing supervised language representation learning algorithms may yield suboptimal solutions. In this paper, we propose TACMA, a temporal-aware language representation learning heuristic for crowdsourced labels with multiple annotators. The proposed approach (1) explicitly models the intra-observer variability with attention mechanism; (2) computes and aggregates per-sample confidence scores from multiple workers to address the inter-observer disagreements. The proposed heuristic is extremely easy to implement in around 5 lines of code. The proposed heuristic is evaluated on four synthetic and four real-world data sets. The results show that our approach outperforms a wide range of state-of-the-art baselines in terms of prediction accuracy and AUC. To encourage the reproducible results, we make our code publicly available at https://github.com/CrowdsourcingMining/TACMA.
Anthology ID:
2021.repl4nlp-1.6
Volume:
Proceedings of the 6th Workshop on Representation Learning for NLP (RepL4NLP-2021)
Month:
August
Year:
2021
Address:
Online
Editors:
Anna Rogers, Iacer Calixto, Ivan Vulić, Naomi Saphra, Nora Kassner, Oana-Maria Camburu, Trapit Bansal, Vered Shwartz
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RepL4NLP
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Association for Computational Linguistics
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Pages:
47–56
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URL:
https://aclanthology.org/2021.repl4nlp-1.6
DOI:
10.18653/v1/2021.repl4nlp-1.6
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Cite (ACL):
Yang Hao, Xiao Zhai, Wenbiao Ding, and Zitao Liu. 2021. Temporal-aware Language Representation Learning From Crowdsourced Labels. In Proceedings of the 6th Workshop on Representation Learning for NLP (RepL4NLP-2021), pages 47–56, Online. Association for Computational Linguistics.
Cite (Informal):
Temporal-aware Language Representation Learning From Crowdsourced Labels (Hao et al., RepL4NLP 2021)
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PDF:
https://aclanthology.org/2021.repl4nlp-1.6.pdf
Code
 CrowdsourcingMining/TACMA