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@inproceedings{varadarajan2023transfer,
title={Transfer and Active Learning for Dissonance Detection: Addressing the Rare-Class Challenge},
author={Varadarajan, Vasudha and Juhng, Swanie and Mahwish, Syeda and Liu, Xiaoran and Luby, Jonah and Luhmann, Christian and Schwartz, H Andrew},
booktitle = "Proceedings of the 61st Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Long Papers)",
month = july,
year = "2023",
address = "Toronto, Canada",
publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
abstract = "While transformer-based systems have enabled greater accuracies with fewer training examples, data acquisition obstacles still persist for rare-class tasks -- when the class label is very infrequent (e.g. < 5% of samples). Active learning has in general been proposed to alleviate such challenges, but choice of selection strategy, the criteria by which rare-class examples are chosen, has not been systematically evaluated. Further, transformers enable iterative transfer-learning approaches. We propose and investigate transfer- and active learning solutions to the rare class problem of dissonance detection through utilizing models trained on closely related tasks and the evaluation of acquisition strategies, including a proposed probability-of-rare-class (PRC) approach. We perform these experiments for a specific rare class problem: collecting language samples of cognitive dissonance from social media. We find that PRC is a simple and effective strategy to guide annotations and ultimately improve model accuracy while transfer-learning in a specific order can improve the cold-start performance of the learner but does not benefit iterations of active learning.",
}