@inproceedings{hao-etal-2021-temporal,
title = "Temporal-aware Language Representation Learning From Crowdsourced Labels",
author = "Hao, Yang and
Zhai, Xiao and
Ding, Wenbiao and
Liu, Zitao",
editor = "Rogers, Anna and
Calixto, Iacer and
Vuli{\'c}, Ivan and
Saphra, Naomi and
Kassner, Nora and
Camburu, Oana-Maria and
Bansal, Trapit and
Shwartz, Vered",
booktitle = "Proceedings of the 6th Workshop on Representation Learning for NLP (RepL4NLP-2021)",
month = aug,
year = "2021",
address = "Online",
publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
url = "https://aclanthology.org/2021.repl4nlp-1.6",
doi = "10.18653/v1/2021.repl4nlp-1.6",
pages = "47--56",
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 \textit{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 \url{https://github.com/CrowdsourcingMining/TACMA}.",
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%A Ding, Wenbiao
%A Liu, Zitao
%Y Rogers, Anna
%Y Calixto, Iacer
%Y Vulić, Ivan
%Y Saphra, Naomi
%Y Kassner, Nora
%Y Camburu, Oana-Maria
%Y Bansal, Trapit
%Y Shwartz, Vered
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%8 August
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%C Online
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%X 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.
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%U https://aclanthology.org/2021.repl4nlp-1.6
%U https://doi.org/10.18653/v1/2021.repl4nlp-1.6
%P 47-56
Markdown (Informal)
[Temporal-aware Language Representation Learning From Crowdsourced Labels](https://aclanthology.org/2021.repl4nlp-1.6) (Hao et al., RepL4NLP 2021)
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