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Multi-task Learning of Pairwise Sequence Classification Tasks Over Disparate Label Spaces

27 Feb 2018NAACL 2018 6arXiv:1802.09913archive 2025-07-28

Isabelle Augenstein, Sebastian Ruder, Anders Søgaard

We combine multi-task learning and semi-supervised learning by inducing a joint embedding space between disparate label spaces and learning transfer functions between label embeddings, enabling us to jointly leverage unlabelled data and auxiliary, annotated datasets. We evaluate our approach on a variety of sequence classification tasks with disparate label spaces. We outperform strong single and multi-task baselines and achieve a new state-of-the-art for topic-based sentiment analysis.

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