Teaching Interactively to Learn Emotions in Natural Language

Rajesh Titung, Cecilia Alm


Abstract
Motivated by prior literature, we provide a proof of concept simulation study for an understudied interactive machine learning method, machine teaching (MT), for the text-based emotion prediction task. We compare this method experimentally against a more well-studied technique, active learning (AL). Results show the strengths of both approaches over more resource-intensive offline supervised learning. Additionally, applying AL and MT to fine-tune a pre-trained model offers further efficiency gain. We end by recommending research directions which aim to empower users in the learning process.
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2022.hcinlp-1.6
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Proceedings of the Second Workshop on Bridging Human--Computer Interaction and Natural Language Processing
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July
Year:
2022
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Seattle, Washington
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Su Lin Blodgett, Hal Daumé III, Michael Madaio, Ani Nenkova, Brendan O'Connor, Hanna Wallach, Qian Yang
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HCINLP
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Association for Computational Linguistics
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40–46
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https://aclanthology.org/2022.hcinlp-1.6
DOI:
10.18653/v1/2022.hcinlp-1.6
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Rajesh Titung and Cecilia Alm. 2022. Teaching Interactively to Learn Emotions in Natural Language. In Proceedings of the Second Workshop on Bridging Human--Computer Interaction and Natural Language Processing, pages 40–46, Seattle, Washington. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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