Multi-Task Learning of Pairwise Sequence Classification Tasks over Disparate Label Spaces

Abstract

We combine multi-task learning and semisupervised 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 stateof-the-art for topic-based sentiment analysis.

Publication
In Proceedings of the 2018 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies, Volume 1 (Long Papers).
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