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Cost-Sensitive Learning in Answer Extraction

  • One problem of data-driven answer extraction in open-domain factoid question answering is that the class distribution of labeled training data is fairly imbalanced. In an ordinary training set, there are far more incorrect answers than correct answers. The class-imbalance is, thus, inherent to the classification task. It has a deteriorating effect on the performance of classifiers trained by standard machine learning algorithms. They usually have a heavy bias towards the majority class, i.e. the class which occurs most often in the training set. In this paper, we propose a method to tackle class imbalance by applying some form of cost-sensitive learning which is preferable to sampling. We present a simple but effective way of estimating the misclassification costs on the basis of class distribution. This approach offers three benefits. Firstly, it maintains the distribution of the classes of the labeled training data. Secondly, this form of meta-learning can be applied to a wide range of common learning algorithms. Thirdly, this approach can be easily implemented with the help of state-of-the-art machine learning software.

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Author:Michael WiegandGND, Jochen L. Leidner, Dietrich Klakow
URN:urn:nbn:de:bsz:mh39-85373
URL:https://aclanthology.info/papers/L08-1293/l08-1293
ISBN:2-9517408-4-0
Parent Title (English):Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC'08), May 28-30, 2008, Marrakech, Morocco
Publisher:European Language Resources Association
Place of publication:Paris
Editor:Nicoletta Calzolari, Khalid Choukri, Bente Maegaard, Joseph Mariani, Jan Odijk, Stelios Piperidis, Daniel Tapias
Document Type:Conference Proceeding
Language:English
Year of first Publication:2008
Date of Publication (online):2019/02/28
Publicationstate:Zweitveröffentlichung
Reviewstate:Peer-Review
Tag:Acquisition; Machine Learning; Question Answering; Statistical methods
GND Keyword:Computerlinguistik; Information Extraction; Maschinelles Lernen; Natürliche Sprache
First Page:711
Last Page:714
DDC classes:400 Sprache / 400 Sprache, Linguistik
Open Access?:ja
Linguistics-Classification:Computerlinguistik
Licence (German):License LogoCreative Commons - Namensnennung 4.0 International