Abstract
This paper describes the participation of the UoB-NLP team in the ProfNER-ST shared subtask 7a. The task was aimed at detecting the mention of professions in social media text. Our team experimented with two methods of improving the performance of pre-trained models: Specifically, we experimented with data augmentation through translation and the merging of multiple language inputs to meet the objective of the task. While the best performing model on the test data consisted of mBERT fine-tuned on augmented data using back-translation, the improvement is minor possibly because multi-lingual pre-trained models such as mBERT already have access to the kind of information provided through back-translation and bilingual data.
Original language | English |
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Title of host publication | Proceedings of the Sixth Social Media Mining for Health (#SMM4H) Workshop and Shared Task |
Editors | Arjun Magge, Ari Klein, Antonio Miranda-Escalada, Mohammed Ali Al-garadi, Ilseyar Alimova, Zulfat Miftahutdinov, Eulalia Farre-Maduell, Salvador Lima-Lopez, Ivan Flores, Karen O'Connor, Davy Weissenbacher, Elena Tutubalina, Abeed Sarker, Juan M Banda, Martin Krallinger, Graciela Gonzalez-Hernandez |
Publisher | Association for Computational Linguistics, ACL |
Pages | 115–117 |
Number of pages | 3 |
ISBN (Electronic) | 9781954085312 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - 10 Jun 2021 |
Event | Sixth Social Media Mining for Health (#SMM4H) Workshop and Shared Task - Mexico City, Mexico and Online, Mexico City, Mexico Duration: 10 Jun 2021 → 10 Jun 2021 Conference number: 6th |
Publication series
Name | Social Media Mining for Health (SMM4H) |
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Conference
Conference | Sixth Social Media Mining for Health (#SMM4H) Workshop and Shared Task |
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Country/Territory | Mexico |
City | Mexico City |
Period | 10/06/21 → 10/06/21 |
Bibliographical note
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ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Computational Theory and Mathematics
- Computer Networks and Communications
- Hardware and Architecture
- Information Systems
- Software