Semanlink - NLP techniques AND Text Classification

> **One-sentence Summary**: we suggest adding an unsupervised intermediate classification step, before finetunning and after pretraining BERT, and show it improves performance for data-constrained cases.

> for text classification cold start (when labeled
data is scarce), **add an intermediate unsupervised
classification task**, between the pretraining
and fine-tuning phases:
> perform clustering and
train the pre-trained model on predicting the
cluster labels.

> this additional
classification phase can significantly improve
performance, mainly for **topical classification**
tasks

> we use an efficient clustering technique,
that relies on simple Bag Of Words (BOW)
representations, to partition the unlabeled training
data into relatively homogeneous clusters of text
instances.
>
> Next, we treat these clusters as labeled
data for an intermediate text classification task, and
train the pre-trained model – with or without additional
MLM pretraining – with respect to this
multi-class problem, prior to the final fine-tuning
over the actual target-task labels

> The underlying
intuition is that inter-training the model
over a related text classification task would be more
beneficial compared to MLM inter-training, which
focuses on different textual entities, namely predicting
the identity of a single token.

2022-04-06 A propos

Sentence Transformer Fine-Tuning (SetFit): Outperforming GPT-3 on few-shot Text-Classification while being 1600 times smaller | by Moshe Wasserblat (2021-12)

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2022-03-31 A propos

Nils Reimers sur Twitter : "Great post on SetFit"

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2022-03-31 A propos

[2203.14655] Few-Shot Learning with Siamese Networks and Label Tuning

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> the problem of building text classifiers with little or no training data.
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> In recent years, an approach based on neural textual entailment models has been found to give strong results on a diverse range of tasks.

(cf. #[NLI](tag:nli), using the input text as the premise and the text representing the label as the hypothesis)

> In this work, we show that **with proper pre-training, Siamese Networks that embed texts and labels** offer a competitive alternative.
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> We introduce **label tuning: fine-tuning the label embeddings only**. While giving lower performance than model fine-tuning (which updates all params of the model), this approach has the architectural advantage that a single encoder can be shared by many different tasks (we only fine-tune the label embeddings)
> The drop in quality can
be compensated by using a variant of **[Knowledge distillation](tag:knowledge_distillation)**

[Github](https://tinyurl.com/label-tuning), [Tweet](doc:2022/03/thomas_muller_sur_twitter_pa)

2022-03-30 A propos

Building a sentence embedding index with fastText and BM25 | by David Mezzetti | Towards Data Science

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2021-09-30 A propos

Zero-Shot Learning in Modern NLP | Joe Davison Blog (2020-05)

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2021-02-23 A propos

raphaelsty/ckb: Contextual knowledge bases

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2020-11-09 A propos

Towards Unsupervised Text Classification Leveraging Experts and Word Embeddings - (ACL 2019)

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2020-10-05 A propos

Unsupervised text classification with word embeddings - Max Halford

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2020-10-05 A propos

[1909.01259] Neural Attentive Bag-of-Entities Model for Text Classification

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A model that performs **text classification using entities in a knowledge base**.

> Entities provide unambiguous and relevant semantic signals that are beneficial for capturing semantics in texts. We combine **simple high-recall entity detection based on a dictionary** (word->list of entities), to detect entities in a document, with a novel neural **attention mechanism that enables the model to focus on a small number of unambiguous and relevant entities**.

2 steps:

1. Entity detection
2. Classification using the detected entities (+text) as inputs

Regarding entity linking, a local model which uses cosine
similarity between the embedding of the target
entity and the word-based representation of
the document to capture the relevance of an entity
given a document.

Embeddings from the KB: computed using [#Wikipedia2Vec](tag:wikipedia2vec) (similar words and entities
close to one another in a unified vector space)

Model using attention, with 2 features :

- cosine similarity between the
embedding of the entity and the word based
representation of the document
- the probability that the entity
name refers to the entity in KB.

Somewhat [related](doc:2020/01/investigating_entity_knowledge_)

### Conclusion:

>a neural
network model that performs text classification using
entities in Wikipedia. We combined simple
dictionary-based entity detection with a neural attention
mechanism to enable the model to focus
on a small number of unambiguous and relevant
entities in a document.

2020-09-02 A propos

Open-sourcing hyperparameter autotuning for fastText

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FastText

2019-08-27 A propos

20% Accuracy Bump in Text Classification with ME-ULMFiT

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2019-06-23 A propos

A Technique for Building NLP Classifiers Efficiently with Transfer Learning and Weak Supervision

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2019-05-22 A propos

[1904.08398] DocBERT: BERT for Document Classification

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2019-04-18 A propos

Cheatsheet · fastText

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2019-01-29 A propos

Using FastText models (not vectors) for robust embeddings | Kaggle

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2019-01-29 A propos

Tutorial on Text Classification (NLP) using ULMFiT and fastai Library in Python - Analytics Vidhya

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2018-12-01 A propos

Deep Unordered Composition Rivals Syntactic Methods for Text Classification (2015)

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2018-05-29 A propos

Under the hood: Multilingual embeddings | Engineering Blog | Facebook Code

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2018-05-11 A propos

GitHub - Babylonpartners/fastText_multilingual: Multilingual word vectors

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2018-05-11 A propos

RESEARCH TRACK: Web Content Analysis, Semantics and Knowledge

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[CFP](https://www2018.thewebconf.org/call-for-papers/research-tracks-cfp/web-content-analysis/)

> In previous years, ‘content analysis’ and ‘semantic and knowledge’ were in separate track. This year, we combined these tracks to emphasize the close relationship between these topics; **the use of content to curate knowledge and the use of knowledge to guide content analysis and intelligent usage**.

Some of the accepted papers:
### [Large-Scale Hierarchical Text Classification with Recursively Regularized Deep Graph-CNN](https://doi.org/10.1145/3178876.3186005)

[Hierarchical Text Classification](/tag/nlp_hierarchical_text_classification): Text classification to a hierarchical taxonomy of topics, using graph representation of text, and CNN over this graph

Renvoie à ce qui a été vu dans le tutorial "Graph-based Text Representations"

from the abstract:

> a graph-CNN based deep learning model to first convert texts to graph-of-words, and then use graph convolution operations to convolve the word graph. Graph-of-words representation of texts has the advantage of capturing non-consecutive and long-distance semantics. CNN models have the advantage of learning different level of semantics. To further leverage the hierarchy of labels, we regularize the deep architecture with the dependency among labels

Conversion of text to graph: potentially given a single document

### [Weakly-supervised Relation Extraction by Pattern-enhanced Embedding Learning](https://doi.org/10.1145/3178876.3186024 )

Extraction de relations de corpus de textes de façon semi-supervisée, dans un contexte où on a peu de données labellisées décrivant les relations.

Par exemple, des données labellisées indique que le texte "Beijing, capital of China" correspond à la relation entre entités : ("Beijing", "Capital Of", "China), et on voudrait pouvoir extraire les entités et relations pertinentes à partir de texte tel que "Paris, France's capital,..."

Le papier décrit une méthode qui combine deux modules, l'un basé sur l'extraction automatique de patterns (par ex "[Head], Capital Of [Tail]") et l'autre sur la "sémantique distributionnelle" (du type "word embeddings"). Ces deux modules collaborent, le premier permettant de créer des instances de relations augmentant la base de connaissance sur lequel entrainer le second, et le second aidant le premier à déterminer des patterns informatifs ("co-entrainement")

### [Scalable Instance Reconstruction in Knowledge Bases via Relatedness Affiliated Embedding](https://doi.org/10.1145/3178876.3186017)

Knowledge base completion problem: usually, it is formulated as a link prediction problem, but not here. A novel knowledge embedding model ("Joint Modelling and Learning of Relatedness and Embedding")

### [Improving Word Embedding Compositionality using Lexicographic Definitions](https://doi.org/10.1145/3178876.3186007)

comment obtenir les meilleures représentations de texte à partir de représentations de mots (word embeddings) ? L'auteur utilise des ressources lexicographiques (wordnet) pour ses tests : l'embedding obtenu pour la définition d'un mot est-il proche de celui du mot ?

Le papier s'appuie sur une [thèse du même auteur](https://esc.fnwi.uva.nl/thesis/centraal/files/f1554608041.pdf), claire et bien écrite.

### [CESI: Canonicalizing Open Knowledge Bases using Embeddings and Side Information](https://doi.org/10.1145/3178876.3186030)

Amélioration de l'extraction de triplets (nom phrase, property, nom phrase) à partir de texte en calculant des embeddings pour les "nom phrases" (~entités)

### [Short-Text Topic Modeling via Non-negative Matrix Factorization Enriched with Local Word-Context Correlations](https://doi.org/10.1145/3178876.3186009)

Topic modeling for short texts, leveraging the word-context semantic correlations in the training

### [Towards Annotating Relational Data on the Web with Language Models](https://doi.org/10.1145/3178876.3186029)

### A paper by [David Blei](/tag/david_blei): (Dynamic Embeddings for Language Evolution)

2018-01-27 A propos

[1801.06146] Universal Language Model Fine-tuning for Text Classification

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