Active Learning of Classification Models with Likert-Scale Feedback

Annotation of classification data by humans can be a time-consuming and tedious process. Finding ways of reducing the annotation effort is critical for building the classification models in practice and for applying them to a variety of classification tasks. In this paper, we develop a new active le...

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Published in:Proceedings of the ... SIAM International Conference on Data Mining Vol. 2017; p. 28
Main Authors: Xue, Yanbing, Hauskrecht, Milos
Format: Journal Article
Language:English
Published: United States 2017
ISSN:2167-0102
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Summary:Annotation of classification data by humans can be a time-consuming and tedious process. Finding ways of reducing the annotation effort is critical for building the classification models in practice and for applying them to a variety of classification tasks. In this paper, we develop a new active learning framework that combines two strategies to reduce the annotation effort. First, it relies on label uncertainty information obtained from the human in terms of the Likert-scale feedback. Second, it uses active learning to annotate examples with the greatest expected change. We propose a Bayesian approach to calculate the expectation and an incremental SVM solver to reduce the time complexity of the solvers. We show the combination of our active learning strategy and the Likert-scale feedback can learn classification models more rapidly and with a smaller number of labeled instances than methods that rely on either Likert-scale labels or active learning alone.
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ISSN:2167-0102
DOI:10.1137/1.9781611974973.4