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title = "Learning to Classify Events from Human Needs Category Descriptions",
author = "Ding, Haibo and
Feng, Zhe",
booktitle = "Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2020",
month = nov,
year = "2020",
address = "Online",
publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
url = "https://aclanthology.org/2020.findings-emnlp.421",
doi = "10.18653/v1/2020.findings-emnlp.421",
pages = "4698--4704",
abstract = "We study the problem of learning an event classifier from human needs category descriptions, which is challenging due to: (1) the use of highly abstract concepts in natural language descriptions, (2) the difficulty of choosing key concepts. To tackle these two challenges, we propose LeaPI, a zero-shot learning method that first automatically generate weak labels by instantiating high-level concepts with prototypical instances and then trains a human needs classifier with the weakly labeled data. To filter noisy concepts, we design a reinforced selection algorithm to choose high-quality concepts for instantiation. Experimental results on the human needs categorization task show that our method outperforms baseline methods, producing substantially better precision.",
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Markdown (Informal)
[Learning to Classify Events from Human Needs Category Descriptions](https://aclanthology.org/2020.findings-emnlp.421) (Ding & Feng, Findings 2020)
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