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Melanie Bradford

3 accepted papers

2023

Reducing cohort bias in natural language understanding systems with targeted self-training scheme

ACL 2023industry

Bias in machine learning models can be an issue when the models are trained on particular types of data that do not generalize well, causing under performance in certain groups of users. In this work, we focus on reducing the bias related to new customers in a digital voice assistant system. It is o…

Cited by 2SourcePDFScholar
2022

Semi-supervised Adversarial Text Generation based on Seq2Seq models

EMNLP 2022industry

To improve deep learning models’ robustness, adversarial training has been frequently used in computer vision with satisfying results. However, adversarial perturbation on text have turned out to be more challenging due to the discrete nature of text. The generated adversarial text might not sound n…

Cited by 5SourcePDFScholar
2020

To What Degree Can Language Borders Be Blurred In BERT-based Multilingual Spoken Language Understanding?

COLING 2020main

This paper addresses the question as to what degree a BERT-based multilingual Spoken Language Understanding (SLU) model can transfer knowledge across languages. Through experiments we will show that, although it works substantially well even on distant language groups, there is still a gap to the id…

Cited by 5SourcePDFScholar