Sz-Rung Shiang


2021

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Multitask Semi-Supervised Learning for Class-Imbalanced Discourse Classification
Alexander Spangher | Jonathan May | Sz-Rung Shiang | Lingjia Deng
Proceedings of the 2021 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing

As labeling schemas evolve over time, small differences can render datasets following older schemas unusable. This prevents researchers from building on top of previous annotation work and results in the existence, in discourse learning in particular, of many small class-imbalanced datasets. In this work, we show that a multitask learning approach can combine discourse datasets from similar and diverse domains to improve discourse classification. We show an improvement of 4.9% Micro F1-score over current state-of-the-art benchmarks on the NewsDiscourse dataset, one of the largest discourse datasets recently published, due in part to label correlations across tasks, which improve performance for underrepresented classes. We also offer an extensive review of additional techniques proposed to address resource-poor problems in NLP, and show that none of these approaches can improve classification accuracy in our setting.

2016

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Attention-based Multimodal Neural Machine Translation
Po-Yao Huang | Frederick Liu | Sz-Rung Shiang | Jean Oh | Chris Dyer
Proceedings of the First Conference on Machine Translation: Volume 2, Shared Task Papers