Shen, Yanyao and Yun, Hyokun and Lipton, Zachary C. and Kronrod, Yakov and Anandkumar, Animashree (2018) Deep Active Learning for Named Entity Recognition. In: 6th International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR 2018), 30 April-3 May 2018, Vancouver, Canada. https://resolver.caltech.edu/CaltechAUTHORS:20190327-085725408
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Abstract
Deep learning has yielded state-of-the-art performance on many natural language processing tasks including named entity recognition (NER). However, this typically requires large amounts of labeled data. In this work, we demonstrate that the amount of labeled training data can be drastically reduced when deep learning is combined with active learning. While active learning is sample-efficient, it can be computationally expensive since it requires iterative retraining. To speed this up, we introduce a lightweight architecture for NER, viz., the CNN-CNN-LSTM model consisting of convolutional character and word encoders and a long short term memory (LSTM) tag decoder. The model achieves nearly state-of-the-art performance on standard datasets for the task while being computationally much more efficient than best performing models. We carry out incremental active learning, during the training process, and are able to nearly match state-of-the-art performance with just 25\% of the original training data.
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Subject Keywords: | active learning, deep learning, named entity recognition | |||||||||
DOI: | 10.48550/arXiv.1707.05928 | |||||||||
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Persistent URL: | https://resolver.caltech.edu/CaltechAUTHORS:20190327-085725408 | |||||||||
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Deposited By: | George Porter | |||||||||
Deposited On: | 28 Mar 2019 22:07 | |||||||||
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