Why only Micro-F1? Class Weighting of Measures for Relation Classification

David Harbecke, Yuxuan Chen, Leonhard Hennig, Christoph Alt


Abstract
Relation classification models are conventionally evaluated using only a single measure, e.g., micro-F1, macro-F1 or AUC. In this work, we analyze weighting schemes, such as micro and macro, for imbalanced datasets. We introduce a framework for weighting schemes, where existing schemes are extremes, and two new intermediate schemes. We show that reporting results of different weighting schemes better highlights strengths and weaknesses of a model.
Anthology ID:
2022.nlppower-1.4
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Proceedings of NLP Power! The First Workshop on Efficient Benchmarking in NLP
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May
Year:
2022
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Dublin, Ireland
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Tatiana Shavrina, Vladislav Mikhailov, Valentin Malykh, Ekaterina Artemova, Oleg Serikov, Vitaly Protasov
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nlppower
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Association for Computational Linguistics
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32–41
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URL:
https://aclanthology.org/2022.nlppower-1.4
DOI:
10.18653/v1/2022.nlppower-1.4
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David Harbecke, Yuxuan Chen, Leonhard Hennig, and Christoph Alt. 2022. Why only Micro-F1? Class Weighting of Measures for Relation Classification. In Proceedings of NLP Power! The First Workshop on Efficient Benchmarking in NLP, pages 32–41, Dublin, Ireland. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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Why only Micro-F1? Class Weighting of Measures for Relation Classification (Harbecke et al., nlppower 2022)
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 dfki-nlp/weighting-schemes-report
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