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title = "Resisting the Lure of the Skyline: Grounding Practices in Active Learning for Morphological Inflection",
author = "Muradoglu, Saliha and
Ginn, Michael and
Silfverberg, Miikka and
Hulden, Mans",
editor = "Ku, Lun-Wei and
Martins, Andre and
Srikumar, Vivek",
booktitle = "Proceedings of the 62nd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 2: Short Papers)",
month = aug,
year = "2024",
address = "Bangkok, Thailand",
publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
url = "https://aclanthology.org/2024.acl-short.4",
pages = "47--55",
abstract = "Active learning (AL) aims to lower the demand of annotation by selecting informative unannotated samples for the model building. In this paper, we explore the importance of conscious experimental design in the language documentation and description setting, particularly the distribution of the unannotated sample pool. We focus on the task of morphological inflection using a Transformer model. We propose context motivated benchmarks: a baseline and skyline. The baseline describes the frequency weighted distribution encountered in natural speech. We simulate this using Wikipedia texts. The skyline defines the more common approach, uniform sampling from a large, balanced corpus (UniMorph, in our case), which often yields mixed results. We note the unrealistic nature of this unannotated pool. When these factors are considered, our results show a clear benefit to targeted sampling.",
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%A Hulden, Mans
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%Y Martins, Andre
%Y Srikumar, Vivek
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Markdown (Informal)
[Resisting the Lure of the Skyline: Grounding Practices in Active Learning for Morphological Inflection](https://aclanthology.org/2024.acl-short.4) (Muradoglu et al., ACL 2024)
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