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Andreas Niekler

3 accepted papers

2022

Revisiting Uncertainty-based Query Strategies for Active Learning with Transformers

ACL 2022findings

Active learning is the iterative construction of a classification model through targeted labeling, enabling significant labeling cost savings. As most research on active learning has been carried out before transformer-based language models (“transformers”) became popular, despite its practical impo…

2021

Press Freedom Monitor: Detection of Reported Press and Media Freedom Violations in Twitter and News Articles

EMNLP 2021system demonstrations

Freedom of the press and media is of vital importance for democratically organised states and open societies. We introduce the Press Freedom Monitor, a tool that aims to detect reported press and media freedom violations in news articles and tweets. It is used by press and media freedom organisation…

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2021

Supporting Land Reuse of Former Open Pit Mining Sites using Text Classification and Active Learning

ACL 2021long

Open pit mines left many regions worldwide inhospitable or uninhabitable. Many sites are left behind in a hazardous or contaminated state, show remnants of waste, or have other restrictions imposed upon them, e.g., for the protection of human or nature. Such information has to be permanently managed…