Investigating Semi-Supervised Learning Algorithms in Text Datasets


KESGİN H. T., AMASYALI M. F.

2022 Innovations in Intelligent Systems and Applications Conference, ASYU 2022, Antalya, Türkiye, 7 - 09 Eylül 2022 identifier identifier

  • Yayın Türü: Bildiri / Tam Metin Bildiri
  • Doi Numarası: 10.1109/asyu56188.2022.9925410
  • Basıldığı Şehir: Antalya
  • Basıldığı Ülke: Türkiye
  • Anahtar Kelimeler: co-training, self-training, semi supervised learning, tri-training, tri-training with disagreement
  • Yıldız Teknik Üniversitesi Adresli: Evet

Özet

Using large training datasets enhances the generalization capabilities of neural networks. Semi-supervised learning (SSL) is useful when there are few labeled data and a lot of unlabeled data. SSL methods that use data augmentation are most successful for image datasets. In contrast, texts do not have consistent augmentation methods as images. Consequently, methods that use augmentation are not as effective in text data as they are in image data. In this study, we compared SSL algorithms that do not require augmentation; these are self-training, co-training, tri-training, and tri-training with disagreement. In the experiments, we used 4 different text datasets for different tasks. We examined the algorithms from a variety of perspectives by asking experiment questions and suggested several improvements. Among the algorithms, tri-training with disagreement showed the closest performance to the Oracle; however, performance gap shows that new semi-supervised algorithms or improvements in existing methods are needed.