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Automatically Identifying Words That Can Serve as Labels for Few-Shot Text Classification
Timo Schick, Helmut Schmid, Hinrich Schütze
Abstract
A recent approach for few-shot text classification is to convert textual inputs to cloze questions that contain some form of task description, process them with a pretrained language model and map the predicted words to labels. Manually defining this mapping between words and labels requires both domain expertise and an understanding of the language model’s abilities. To mitigate this issue, we devise an approach that automatically finds such a mapping given small amounts of training data. For a number of tasks, the mapping found by our approach performs almost as well as hand-crafted label-to-word mappings.
BibTeX
@inproceedings{schick-etal-2020-automatically,
title = "Automatically Identifying Words That Can Serve as Labels for Few-Shot Text Classification",
author = {Schick, Timo and
Schmid, Helmut and
Sch{\"u}tze, Hinrich},
editor = "Scott, Donia and
Bel, Nuria and
Zong, Chengqing",
booktitle = "Proceedings of the 28th International Conference on Computational Linguistics",
month = dec,
year = "2020",
address = "Barcelona, Spain (Online)",
publisher = "International Committee on Computational Linguistics",
url = "https://aclanthology.org/2020.coling-main.488/",
doi = "10.18653/v1/2020.coling-main.488",
pages = "5569--5578"
}