Learning from partially annotated sequences

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We study sequential prediction models in cases where only fragments of the sequences are annotated with the ground-truth. The task does not match the standard semi-supervised setting and is highly relevant in areas such as natural language processing, where completely labeled instances are expensive and require editorial data. We propose to generalize the semi-supervised setting and devise a simple transductive loss-augmented perceptron to learn from inexpensive partially annotated sequences that could for instance be provided by laymen, the wisdom of the crowd, or even automatically. Experiments on mono- and cross-lingual named entity recognition tasks with automatically generated partially annotated sentences from Wikipedia demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed approach. Our results show that learning from partially labeled data is never worse than standard supervised and semi-supervised approaches trained on data with the same ratio of labeled and unlabeled tokens.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationMachine Learning and Knowledge Discovery in Databases - European Conference, ECML PKDD 2011, Proceedings
EditorsDimitrios Gunopulos, Thomas Hofmann, Donato Malerba, Michalis Vazirgiannis
Number of pages16
Place of PublicationHeidelberg, Berlin
PublisherSpringer
Publication date2011
EditionPART 1
Pages407-422
ISBN (print)978-3-642-23779-9
ISBN (electronic)978-3-642-23780-5
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2011
Externally publishedYes
EventEuropean Conference on Machine Learning and Principles and Practice of Knowledge Discovery in Databases - ECML PKDD 2011 - Athen, Greece
Duration: 05.09.201109.09.2011
http://www.ecmlpkdd2011.org/
https://www.ecmlpkdd2011.org/

    Research areas

  • Informatics - Automatically generated, Cross-lingual, Labeled data, Named entity recognition, NAtural language processing, Perceptron, Semi-supervised, Sequential prediction, Hide Markov Model, Unlabeled Data, Neural Information Processing System, Entity Recognition, Annotate Sequence
  • Business informatics