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Two-Step Classification using Recasted Data for Low Resource Settings

Shagun Uppal, Vivek Gupta, Avinash Swaminathan, Haimin Zhang, Debanjan Mahata, Rakesh Gosangi, Rajiv Ratn Shah, Amanda Stent


Abstract
An NLP model’s ability to reason should be independent of language. Previous works utilize Natural Language Inference (NLI) to understand the reasoning ability of models, mostly focusing on high resource languages like English. To address scarcity of data in low-resource languages such as Hindi, we use data recasting to create NLI datasets for four existing text classification datasets. Through experiments, we show that our recasted dataset is devoid of statistical irregularities and spurious patterns. We further study the consistency in predictions of the textual entailment models and propose a consistency regulariser to remove pairwise-inconsistencies in predictions. We propose a novel two-step classification method which uses textual-entailment predictions for classification task. We further improve the performance by using a joint-objective for classification and textual entailment. We therefore highlight the benefits of data recasting and improvements on classification performance using our approach with supporting experimental results.
Anthology ID:
2020.aacl-main.71
Volume:
Proceedings of the 1st Conference of the Asia-Pacific Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics and the 10th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing
Month:
December
Year:
2020
Address:
Suzhou, China
Editors:
Kam-Fai Wong, Kevin Knight, Hua Wu
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AACL
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Publisher:
Association for Computational Linguistics
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Pages:
706–719
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URL:
https://aclanthology.org/2020.aacl-main.71
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Cite (ACL):
Shagun Uppal, Vivek Gupta, Avinash Swaminathan, Haimin Zhang, Debanjan Mahata, Rakesh Gosangi, Rajiv Ratn Shah, and Amanda Stent. 2020. Two-Step Classification using Recasted Data for Low Resource Settings. In Proceedings of the 1st Conference of the Asia-Pacific Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics and the 10th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing, pages 706–719, Suzhou, China. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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Two-Step Classification using Recasted Data for Low Resource Settings (Uppal et al., AACL 2020)
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PDF:
https://aclanthology.org/2020.aacl-main.71.pdf
Code
 midas-research/hindi-nli-code +  additional community code
Data
XNLI