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Joint Learning of Pre-Trained and Random Units for Domain Adaptation in Part-of-Speech Tagging

7 Apr 2019NAACL 2019 6arXiv:1904.03595archive 2025-07-28

Sara Meftah, Youssef Tamaazousti, Nasredine Semmar, Hassane Essafi, Fatiha Sadat

Fine-tuning neural networks is widely used to transfer valuable knowledge from high-resource to low-resource domains. In a standard fine-tuning scheme, source and target problems are trained using the same architecture. Although capable of adapting to new domains, pre-trained units struggle with learning uncommon target-specific patterns. In this paper, we propose to augment the target-network with normalised, weighted and randomly initialised units that beget a better adaptation while maintaining the valuable source knowledge. Our experiments on POS tagging of social media texts (Tweets domain) demonstrate that our method achieves state-of-the-art performances on 3 commonly used datasets.

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Domain AdaptationPOSPOS TaggingPart-Of-Speech Tagging

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Part-Of-Speech Tagging Social media PretRand Accuracy 91.46 #1 of 3 Archive leaderboard report

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