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48 results for language classification

Language models help text classification tasks by predicting next words.

problem Lack of theoretical understanding of why language models perform well on downstream tasks.
method Mathematical study of the connection between next word prediction and text classification, formalizing it and quantifying the benefit.
result Language models that are ε-optimal in cross-entropy learn features that can solve classification tasks with linear approximation.

Paper benchmarks Bengali language classification tasks using MConv-LSTM network.

problem Lack of computational resources for NLP tasks in under-resourced languages like Bengali.
method Built three datasets, BengFastText word embeddings, and MConv-LSTM network for hate speech detection, document classification, and sentiment analysis.
result BengFastText yields up to 92.30%, 82.25%, and 90.45% F1-scores in document classification, sentiment analysis, and hate speech detection respectively.

Paper introduces a specialized text classification system for French Open Banking transactions.

problem Classifying specialized banking text data with high accuracy and efficiency.
method Data collection, labeling, preprocessing, modeling, and evaluation stages with language-specific techniques.
result Enhanced performance and efficiency compared to generic approaches.

Natural Language Processing (NLP) and especially natural language text analysis have seen great advances in recent times. Usage of deep learning in text processing has revolutionized the techniques for text processing and achieved remarkable results. Different deep learning architectures like CNN, LSTM, and very recent…

2020-01-19abs ↗pdf ↗

Improved sentiment analysis in Korean finance using masked PLMs.

problem Fine-grained sentiment analysis in non-English finance literature is lacking due to limited annotated data.
method Developed KorFinASC dataset and applied TGT-Masking to PLMs to remove non-stationary knowledge.
result Improved classification accuracy by 22.63% on KorFinASC.

Sentiment classification is an important process in understanding people's perception towards a product, service, or topic. Many natural language processing models have been proposed to solve the sentiment classification problem. However, most of them have focused on binary sentiment classification. In this paper, we u…

2019-10-04abs ↗pdf ↗

Reduces gender bias in patient notes while maintaining medical classification accuracy.

problem Bias in natural language processing of patient notes.
method Identifying and removing gendered language using BERT-based classifiers, then augmenting data to maintain performance.
result Minimal degradation in health condition classification tasks with data augmentation.

StonkBERT predicts stock price movements using company text data.

problem Can language models predict medium-run stock price movements?
method Fine-tuning transformer-based language models (BERT) on company text data (news articles, blogs, annual reports) for stock price performance classification.
result StonkBERT shows substantial improvement in predictive accuracy compared to traditional models, with news articles providing the best results.

This thesis evaluates text-based vs audio-based classification of mental health interviews.

problem Classifying psychiatric illness using text-based methods.
method Design and evaluate a text classification network on mental health interviews, using belabBERT.
result Text-based classification is a strong alternative to audio-based methods.

Deep learning models outperform classical methods in text classification.

problem Improving text classification accuracy using deep learning.
method Comprehensive review of deep learning models and datasets for text classification.
result Deep learning models outperform classical methods on various text classification tasks.

Determining the programming language of a source code file has been considered in the research community; it has been shown that Machine Learning (ML) and Natural Language Processing (NLP) algorithms can be effective in identifying the programming language of source code files. However, determining the programming lang…

2018-09-21abs ↗pdf ↗

Inductive transfer learning has greatly impacted computer vision, but existing approaches in NLP still require task-specific modifications and training from scratch. We propose Universal Language Model Fine-tuning (ULMFiT), an effective transfer learning method that can be applied to any task in NLP, and introduce tech…

2018-01-18abs ↗pdf ↗

The number of possible methods of generalizing binary classification to multi-class classification increases exponentially with the number of class labels. Often, the best method of doing so will be highly problem dependent. Here we present classification software in which the partitioning of multi-class classification…

2014-04-15abs ↗pdf ↗

Paper tackles counterfactual sentence detection and evaluation.

problem Detect and evaluate counterfactual sentences in natural language.
method Used a BERT base model for classification and a hybrid BERT Multi-Layer Perceptron for sequence identification. Introduced cascaded linear inputs to improve performance.
result Achieved an F1 score of 85.00% in Task 1 and 83.90% in Task 2.

Study finds optimal vocabulary size for neural machine translation.

problem Imbalanced class distribution in language data affects NMT performance.
method Casts NMT as a classification task, analyzes vocabulary sizes, and tests multiple languages.
result Certain vocabulary sizes outperform others, explaining NMT performance.

Geo2DR learns graph representations using substructure patterns.

problem Learning distributed representations of graphs efficiently.
method Unsupervised learning with discrete substructure patterns and neural language models.
result Geo2DR achieves high reproducibility and interoperability in graph classification.

This paper investigates how large language models achieve neural collapse, a phenomenon linked to generalization.

problem Neural collapse in large language models under imbalanced and token-rich conditions.
method Empirical investigation of scaling and regularization effects on CLMs' progression towards neural collapse.
result Neural collapse properties develop with scale and regularization, linked to generalization in language modeling.

LLMs produce volatile sentence-level sentiment classifications that affect financial decision-making.

problem Volatile outputs from LLMs impact financial text understanding tasks.
method Case study on US equity market investing via news sentiment analysis.
result Volatile LLM outputs lead to significant variations in portfolio construction and returns.

Paper proposes a deep learning model for understanding e-commerce addresses.

problem Challenges in parsing shipping addresses with no fixed format.
method Combines NLP techniques with pre-processing steps for addresses, uses RoBERTa for vector representations.
result RoBERTa model achieves 90% accuracy in sub-region classification for North and South Indian cities.

A new LLM-based method enhances diversity in oversampling for imbalanced classification.

problem Limited diversity in synthetic minority samples generated by current LLM-based approaches reduces robustness and generalizability.
method Condition synthetic sample generation on minority labels and features, use permutation strategy for fine-tuning, fine-tune on minority and interpolated samples.
result Significantly outperforms eight SOTA baselines in diverse synthetic sample generation and downstream classification tasks.

Neural NCD reveals LLMs don't compress well for classification.

problem The disconnect between compression and classification in neural networks.
method Developed Neural NCD to compare LLMs to classic algorithms, finding classification accuracy not correlated with compression rate.
result Classification accuracy is not predictable by compression rate alone, challenging current understanding.

Improved incremental sequence classification with temporal consistency.

problem Updating predictions as new sequence elements are revealed.
method Temporal-difference learning and a temporal-consistency condition for successive predictions.
result Optimizing a novel loss function improves data efficiency and predictive accuracy.

Large language models have recently achieved state of the art performance across a wide variety of natural language tasks. Meanwhile, the size of these models and their latency have significantly increased, which makes their usage costly, and raises an interesting question: do language models need to be large? We study…

2019-10-10abs ↗pdf ↗

Domain classification is the task of mapping spoken language utterances to one of the natural language understanding domains in intelligent personal digital assistants (IPDAs). This is a major component in mainstream IPDAs in industry. Apart from official domains, thousands of third-party domains are also created by ex…

2019-05-02abs ↗pdf ↗

ALIEN improves uncertainty estimation of language models by refining entropy-based methods.

problem Overconfidence in uncertainty estimation for language models, especially for difficult inputs.
method ALIEN refines entropy-based uncertainty by aligning it with prediction reliability, using a lightweight uncertainty head.
result ALIEN consistently outperforms strong baselines in detecting incorrect predictions and achieving the lowest calibration error.

Although deep convolutional networks have achieved improved performance in many natural language tasks, they have been treated as black boxes because they are difficult to interpret. Especially, little is known about how they represent language in their intermediate layers. In an attempt to understand the representatio…

2019-02-18abs ↗pdf ↗

Research aims to ensure fair classification across explicit and implicit sensitive features.

problem Ensuring fairness in machine learning models when sensitive features are not explicitly provided.
method Defined explicit and implicit cohorts, used clustering of embeddings, modified loss function.
result Improved classification parity across explicit and implicit sensitive features.

Enhances medical code predictions for multi-morbidity patients using text classification.

problem Improving accuracy in predicting medical codes for patients with multiple illnesses.
method Used machine learning techniques, including multi-label medical text classification, to enhance predictions.
result High dimensional embeddings pre-trained on health data significantly improve multi-label classification performance.

Cross-language learning allows us to use training data from one language to build models for a different language. Many approaches to bilingual learning require that we have word-level alignment of sentences from parallel corpora. In this work we explore the use of autoencoder-based methods for cross-language learning …

2014-02-06abs ↗pdf ↗

Small LLMs outperform large ones on simple tasks without extra labelling costs.

problem Performance of large commercial models in simple classification tasks.
method Logistic Regression on small LLM embeddings.
result Small LLMs equal or outperform large LLMs in 'tens-of-shot' classification tasks.

Paper fine-tunes LLMs for financial tasks using data fusion.

problem Improving LLMs for financial analysis tasks.
method Fine-tuned Llama3-8B and Mistral-7B using PEFT and LoRA, combined datasets for data fusion.
result Enhanced model performance across financial tasks.

iPrompt uses LLMs to generate natural-language explanations of data patterns.

problem Finding and explaining patterns in data using natural language.
method Interpretable autoprompting (iPrompt) that generates natural-language explanations based on LLMs.
result iPrompt can accurately find and explain data patterns, improving upon human-written prompts.

This work uses conformal prediction to quantify uncertainty in large language models for multiple-choice questions.

problem Ensuring robustness and reliability of large language models in high-stakes applications.
method Conformal prediction applied to multi-choice question answering.
result Uncertainty estimates from conformal prediction are closely related to prediction accuracy.