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Noise-injected Consistency Training and Entropy-constrained Pseudo Labeling for Semi-supervised Extractive Summarization

Yiming Wang, Qianren Mao, Junnan Liu, Weifeng Jiang, Hongdong Zhu, Jianxin Li

Abstract

Labeling large amounts of extractive summarization data is often prohibitive expensive due to time, financial, and expertise constraints, which poses great challenges to incorporating summarization system in practical applications. This limitation can be overcome by semi-supervised approaches: consistency-training and pseudo-labeling to make full use of unlabeled data. Researches on the two, however, are conducted independently, and very few works try to connect them. In this paper, we first use the noise-injected consistency training paradigm to regularize model predictions. Subsequently, we propose a novel entropy-constrained pseudo labeling strategy to obtain high-confidence labels from unlabeled predictions, which can obtain high-confidence labels from unlabeled predictions by comparing the entropy of supervised and unsupervised predictions. By combining consistency training and pseudo-labeling, this framework enforce a low-density separation between classes, which decently improves the performance of supervised learning over an insufficient labeled extractive summarization dataset.

BibTeX
@inproceedings{wang-etal-2022-noise,
    title = "Noise-injected Consistency Training and Entropy-constrained Pseudo Labeling for Semi-supervised Extractive Summarization",
    author = "Wang, Yiming  and
      Mao, Qianren  and
      Liu, Junnan  and
      Jiang, Weifeng  and
      Zhu, Hongdong  and
      Li, Jianxin",
    editor = "Calzolari, Nicoletta  and
      Huang, Chu-Ren  and
      Kim, Hansaem  and
      Pustejovsky, James  and
      Wanner, Leo  and
      Choi, Key-Sun  and
      Ryu, Pum-Mo  and
      Chen, Hsin-Hsi  and
      Donatelli, Lucia  and
      Ji, Heng  and
      Kurohashi, Sadao  and
      Paggio, Patrizia  and
      Xue, Nianwen  and
      Kim, Seokhwan  and
      Hahm, Younggyun  and
      He, Zhong  and
      Lee, Tony Kyungil  and
      Santus, Enrico  and
      Bond, Francis  and
      Na, Seung-Hoon",
    booktitle = "Proceedings of the 29th International Conference on Computational Linguistics",
    month = oct,
    year = "2022",
    address = "Gyeongju, Republic of Korea",
    publisher = "International Committee on Computational Linguistics",
    url = "https://aclanthology.org/2022.coling-1.561/",
    pages = "6447--6456"
}
Noise-injected Consistency Training and Entropy-constrained Pseudo Labeling for Semi-supervised Extractive Summarization · COLING 2022