ALAMBIC : Active Learning Automation Methods to Battle Inefficient Curation

Charlotte Nachtegael, Jacopo De Stefani, Tom Lenaerts


Abstract
In this paper, we present ALAMBIC, an open-source dockerized web-based platform for annotating text data through active learning for classification task. Active learning is known to reduce the need of labelling, a time-consuming task, by selecting the most informative instances among the unlabelled instances, reaching an optimal accuracy faster than by just randomly labelling data. ALAMBIC integrates all the steps from data import to customization of the (active) learning process and annotation of the data, with indications of the progress of the trained model that can be downloaded and used in downstream tasks. Its architecture also allows the easy integration of other types of model, features and active learning strategies. The code is available on https://github.com/Trusted-AI-Labs/ALAMBIC and a video demonstration is available on https://youtu.be/4oh8UADfEmY.
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2023.eacl-demo.14
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Proceedings of the 17th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: System Demonstrations
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May
Year:
2023
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Dubrovnik, Croatia
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Danilo Croce, Luca Soldaini
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EACL
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Association for Computational Linguistics
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117–127
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https://aclanthology.org/2023.eacl-demo.14
DOI:
10.18653/v1/2023.eacl-demo.14
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Charlotte Nachtegael, Jacopo De Stefani, and Tom Lenaerts. 2023. ALAMBIC : Active Learning Automation Methods to Battle Inefficient Curation. In Proceedings of the 17th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: System Demonstrations, pages 117–127, Dubrovnik, Croatia. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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ALAMBIC : Active Learning Automation Methods to Battle Inefficient Curation (Nachtegael et al., EACL 2023)
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