Multi-Task Aspect-Based Sentiment: A Hybrid Sampling and Stance Detection Approach

This paper discusses the challenges associated with a class imbalance in medical data and the limitations of current approaches, such as machine multi-task learning (MMTL), in addressing these challenges. The proposed solution involves a novel hybrid data sampling method that combines SMOTE, a meta-...

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Main Author: Samer Abdulateef Waheeb
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Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2023-12-01
Series:Applied Sciences
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Online Access:https://www.mdpi.com/2076-3417/14/1/300
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description This paper discusses the challenges associated with a class imbalance in medical data and the limitations of current approaches, such as machine multi-task learning (MMTL), in addressing these challenges. The proposed solution involves a novel hybrid data sampling method that combines SMOTE, a meta-weigher with a meta-based self-training method (MMS), and one-sided selection (OSS) to balance the distribution of classes. The method also utilizes condensed nearest neighbors (CNN) to remove noisy majority examples and redundant examples. The proposed technique is twofold, involving the creation of artificial instances using SMOTE-OSS-CNN to oversample the under-represented class distribution and the use of MMS to train an instructor model that produces in-field knowledge for pseudo-labeled examples. The student model uses these pseudo-labels for supervised learning, and the student model and MMS meta-weigher are jointly trained to give each example subtask-specific weights to balance class labels and mitigate the noise effects caused by self-training. The proposed technique is evaluated on a discharge summary dataset against six state-of-the-art approaches, and the results demonstrate that it outperforms these approaches with complete labeled data and achieves results equivalent to state-of-the-art methods that require all labeled data using aspect-based sentiment analysis (ABSA).
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spelling doaj.art-dac3daffa77245dba931f4127af8c2e92024-01-10T14:51:39ZengMDPI AGApplied Sciences2076-34172023-12-0114130010.3390/app14010300Multi-Task Aspect-Based Sentiment: A Hybrid Sampling and Stance Detection ApproachSamer Abdulateef Waheeb0School of Computer Science and Engineering, Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xi’an 710072, ChinaThis paper discusses the challenges associated with a class imbalance in medical data and the limitations of current approaches, such as machine multi-task learning (MMTL), in addressing these challenges. The proposed solution involves a novel hybrid data sampling method that combines SMOTE, a meta-weigher with a meta-based self-training method (MMS), and one-sided selection (OSS) to balance the distribution of classes. The method also utilizes condensed nearest neighbors (CNN) to remove noisy majority examples and redundant examples. The proposed technique is twofold, involving the creation of artificial instances using SMOTE-OSS-CNN to oversample the under-represented class distribution and the use of MMS to train an instructor model that produces in-field knowledge for pseudo-labeled examples. The student model uses these pseudo-labels for supervised learning, and the student model and MMS meta-weigher are jointly trained to give each example subtask-specific weights to balance class labels and mitigate the noise effects caused by self-training. The proposed technique is evaluated on a discharge summary dataset against six state-of-the-art approaches, and the results demonstrate that it outperforms these approaches with complete labeled data and achieves results equivalent to state-of-the-art methods that require all labeled data using aspect-based sentiment analysis (ABSA).https://www.mdpi.com/2076-3417/14/1/300aspect-based sentiment analysismeta-weigherimbalance data
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Multi-Task Aspect-Based Sentiment: A Hybrid Sampling and Stance Detection Approach
Applied Sciences
aspect-based sentiment analysis
meta-weigher
imbalance data
title Multi-Task Aspect-Based Sentiment: A Hybrid Sampling and Stance Detection Approach
title_full Multi-Task Aspect-Based Sentiment: A Hybrid Sampling and Stance Detection Approach
title_fullStr Multi-Task Aspect-Based Sentiment: A Hybrid Sampling and Stance Detection Approach
title_full_unstemmed Multi-Task Aspect-Based Sentiment: A Hybrid Sampling and Stance Detection Approach
title_short Multi-Task Aspect-Based Sentiment: A Hybrid Sampling and Stance Detection Approach
title_sort multi task aspect based sentiment a hybrid sampling and stance detection approach
topic aspect-based sentiment analysis
meta-weigher
imbalance data
url https://www.mdpi.com/2076-3417/14/1/300
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