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| "text": "To date, there are many tools available for active learning, such as the TexNLP (Baldridge and Palmer, 2009) , the Active-Learning-Scala (Santos and Carvalho, 2014) , the JCLAL (Reyes et al., 2016) , the LibAct (Yang et al., 2017) libraries, the Vowpal Wabbit 1 . These tools, however, focus only on the active learning algorithms and provide no user interface thus making it difficult to use for the end-users. On the other hand, several tools have been made with user-friendly interface such 1 http://hunch.net/\u02dcvw/ as BRAT (Stenetorp et al., 2012) , WebAnno (Yimam et al., 2013) , PubAnnotation (Kim and Wang, 2012) , doccano 2 . Some of the tools offer active/proactive learning such as APLenty (Nghiem and Ananiadou, 2018) , DUALIST (Settles and Zhu, 2012) , AlpacaTag (Lin et al., 2019) , Discrete Active Learning Coref (Li et al., 2020a) . Currently, these tools support sequence labelling/coreference resolution tasks but not document classification tasks. To the best of our knowledge, there is no such tool for document classification which supports active/proactive learning. Prodigy 3 supports active learning for both sequence labelling and document classification tasks but it is a commercial product.", | |
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| "text": "To compensate for the lack of available document-level annotation tool, we develop Paladin (Proactive learning annotator for document instances), an open-source web-based system for creating labelled data using active/proactive learning 4 . The main innovation of Paladin is the combination of a user-friendly annotation tool with active/proactive learning. Specifically:", | |
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| "text": "3. Suitable for multi-label document annotation tasks: Paladin is best used for multi-label document annotation tasks, although it can be used for other single-label classification problems.", | |
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| "text": "The remainder of this paper is organized as follows. Section 2 presents details of Paladin. Section 3 describes a case study of using Paladin for a multi-label document annotation task. Section 4 concludes the paper and points to avenues for future work.", | |
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| "text": "A user wishes to create a labelled dataset from scratch: the user needs to provide the tag set and the unlabelled data. The first iteration will select unlabelled instances for annotation randomly. After the first iteration, the process is the same as the previous use case.", | |
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| "text": "We used the Toxic Comment Classification Challenge dataset 5 for this experiment. The dataset contains Wikipedia comments which have been manually labelled for toxic behaviour. There are six classes: toxic, severe toxic, obscene, threat, insult, and identity hate. In the experiment, we used 60 comments as the initial training data (seed), 600 comments as test data, and 18,000 for unlabelled data. The instances forming the seed and test data are randomly taken from the original data but we make sure that each class has at least 10 instances and 100 instances in the seed and test data respectively.", | |
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| "text": "We compare three settings in this case study. The first one is Random Sampling: the system randomly chooses the next documents for annotation. The second one is Active Learning: the system uses the output of the trained model to assign new documents to an expert (annotator who always provide correct labels). The third one is Proactive Learning: same as Active Learning, but we have two annotators, one expert, and one fallible annotator (annotator who makes mistakes with a probability of 0.1). Figure 4 shows the F1 scores on the test set. In all cases, active/proactive learning setting outperformed Random Sampling setting. ", | |
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| "text": "For this experiment, we worked with a consumer law firm analysing 6,880 emails. Each email can have one or more labels from a predefined list which consist of 15 labels. Some examples are \"update query\", \"payment query\", and \"fee query\". Given an email, the annotator had to annotate all labels that are applicable to that email. There are a total of 2,000 emails which were already annotated. This dataset is an unbalanced dataset where nearly two-thirds of the emails belong to the 5 most common labels while less than 7 percent of the emails come from the 5 least common labels. In the experiment, we used 1,000 emails as the initial training data, 1,000 emails as test data, and the rest (4,880) as unlabelled data. The purpose of the experiment was to investigate the performance of Paladin with an unbalanced seed dataset.", | |
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| "text": "Using Paladin, we created an annotation project with four annotators and in each annotation session, an annotator must annotate 20 emails. All annotators are members of the law firm with legal background. We used \"maintain class balance\" and \"best annotators first\" for active learning strategy and proactive learning strategy respectively. We stopped when a total of 1,000 emails were annotated. Figure 5 shows the F1 scores and the stacking percentages of label instance count. The results showed that the F1 score and percentage of minority classes were gradually increased after each annotation batch. We used an Intel Core i9 9820X Linux server with 64GB RAM and a Titan RTX GPU. When allocating a new annotation batch (retraining the model, predicting the unlabelled instances, selecting new instances for annotation), Paladin runs consistently at the rate of around 0.01 to 0.02 seconds per document and it takes less than two minutes to get results. The average level of satisfaction (with ratings from 1 to 5 of three aspects: responsiveness, easy to annotate, easy to navigate) of the annotators with the annotation tool is 4.5/5.", | |
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| "text": "We introduced Paladin, a web-based open environment for constructing multi-label document-level datasets using active and proactive learning. Paladin can support the quick development of highquality labelled data needed to train and evaluate NLP tools for different applications.", | |
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| "text": "Considerably more work will need to be done to further enhance Paladin to work with other active/proactive learning algorithms. Besides that, a natural progression of this work is to evaluate Paladin in a large scale annotation project.", | |
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| "text": "https://github.com/doccano 3 https://prodi.gy/ 4 The source code is publicly available at https:// github.com/bluenqm/Paladin", | |
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| "text": "This research has been carried out with funding from KTP11612. We would like to thank the anonymous reviewers for their helpful comments.", | |
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| }, | |
| "FIGREF1": { | |
| "type_str": "figure", | |
| "text": "Dataset/Seed Dataset", | |
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| }, | |
| "FIGREF2": { | |
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| "text": "Annotation interface. The displayed sentence was taken from the Sentiment140 dataset. All labels are shown in the blue rectangle box with the shortcut keys next to them. Annotated labels are shown above the sentence.", | |
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| }, | |
| "FIGREF3": { | |
| "type_str": "figure", | |
| "text": "Figure 4: Learning curve", | |
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| }, | |
| "FIGREF5": { | |
| "type_str": "figure", | |
| "text": "F1 scores and percentages of label instance count. We grouped 5 labels together for readability.", | |
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| } | |
| } | |
| } | |
| } |