Abstract

Language model (LM) has become a common method of transfer learning in Natural Language Processing (NLP) tasks when working with small labeled datasets. An LM is pretrained using an easily available large unlabelled text corpus and is fine-tuned with the labelled data to apply to the target (i.e., downstream) task. As an LM is designed to capture the linguistic aspects of semantics, it can be biased to linguistic features. We argue that exposing an LM model during fine-tuning to instances that capture diverse semantic aspects (e.g., topical, linguistic, semantic relations) present in the dataset will improve its performance on the underlying task. We propose a Mixed Aspect Sampling (MAS) framework to sample instances that capture different semantic aspects of the dataset and use the ensemble classifier to improve the classification performance. Experimental results show that MAS performs better than random sampling as well as the state-of-the-art active learning models to abuse detection tasks where it is hard to collect the labelled data for building an accurate classifier.

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