Yu Chang


2023

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Sea_and_Wine at SemEval-2023 Task 9: A Regression Model with Data Augmentation for Multilingual Intimacy Analysis
Yuxi Chen | Yu Chang | Yanqing Tao | Yanru Zhang
Proceedings of the 17th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation (SemEval-2023)

In Task 9, we are required to analyze the textual intimacy of tweets in 10 languages. We fine-tune XLM-RoBERTa (XLM-R) pre-trained model to adapt to this multilingual regression task. After tentative experiments, severe class imbalance is observed in the official released dataset, which may compromise the convergence and weaken the model effect. To tackle such challenge, we take measures in two aspects. On the one hand, we implement data augmentation through machine translation to enlarge the scale of classes with fewer samples. On the other hand, we introduce focal mean square error (MSE) loss to emphasize the contributions of hard samples to total loss, thus further mitigating the impact of class imbalance on model effect. Extensive experiments demonstrate remarkable effectiveness of our strategies, and our model achieves high performance on the Pearson’s correlation coefficient (CC) almost above 0.85 on validation dataset.

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niceNLP at SemEval-2023 Task 10: Dual Model Alternate Pseudo-labeling Improves Your Predictions
Yu Chang | Yuxi Chen | Yanru Zhang
Proceedings of the 17th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation (SemEval-2023)

Sexism is a growing online problem. It harms women who are targeted and makes online spaces inaccessible and unwelcoming. In this paper, we present our approach for Task A of SemEval-2023 Task 10: Explainable Detection of Online Sexism (EDOS), which aims to perform binary sexism detection on textual content. To solve this task, we fine-tune the pre-trained model based on several popular natural language processing methods to improve the generalization ability in the face of different data. According to the experimental results, the effective combination of multiple methods enables our approach to achieve excellent performance gains.

2022

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Automatic Word Segmentation and Part-of-Speech Tagging of Ancient Chinese Based on BERT Model
Yu Chang | Peng Zhu | Chaoping Wang | Chaofan Wang
Proceedings of the Second Workshop on Language Technologies for Historical and Ancient Languages

In recent years, new deep learning methods and pre-training language models have been emerging in the field of natural language processing (NLP). These methods and models can greatly improve the accuracy of automatic word segmentation and part-of-speech tagging in the field of ancient Chinese research. In these models, the BERT model has made amazing achievements in the top-level test of machine reading comprehension SQuAD-1.1. In addition, it also showed better results than other models in 11 different NLP tests. In this paper, SIKU-RoBERTa pre-training language model based on the high-quality full-text corpus of SiKuQuanShu have been adopted, and part corpus of ZuoZhuan that has been word segmented and part-of-speech tagged is used as training sets to build a deep network model based on BERT for word segmentation and POS tagging experiments. In addition, we also use other classical NLP network models for comparative experiments. The results show that using SIKU-RoBERTa pre-training language model, the overall prediction accuracy of word segmentation and part-of-speech tagging of this model can reach 93.87% and 88.97%, with excellent overall performance.