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title = "A Robust Self-Learning Framework for Cross-Lingual Text Classification",
author = "Dong, Xin and
de Melo, Gerard",
editor = "Inui, Kentaro and
Jiang, Jing and
Ng, Vincent and
Wan, Xiaojun",
booktitle = "Proceedings of the 2019 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing and the 9th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing (EMNLP-IJCNLP)",
month = nov,
year = "2019",
address = "Hong Kong, China",
publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
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doi = "10.18653/v1/D19-1658",
pages = "6306--6310",
abstract = "Based on massive amounts of data, recent pretrained contextual representation models have made significant strides in advancing a number of different English NLP tasks. However, for other languages, relevant training data may be lacking, while state-of-the-art deep learning methods are known to be data-hungry. In this paper, we present an elegantly simple robust self-learning framework to include unlabeled non-English samples in the fine-tuning process of pretrained multilingual representation models. We leverage a multilingual model{'}s own predictions on unlabeled non-English data in order to obtain additional information that can be used during further fine-tuning. Compared with original multilingual models and other cross-lingual classification models, we observe significant gains in effectiveness on document and sentiment classification for a range of diverse languages.",
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%Y Wan, Xiaojun
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Markdown (Informal)
[A Robust Self-Learning Framework for Cross-Lingual Text Classification](https://aclanthology.org/D19-1658) (Dong & de Melo, EMNLP-IJCNLP 2019)
ACL
- Xin Dong and Gerard de Melo. 2019. A Robust Self-Learning Framework for Cross-Lingual Text Classification. In Proceedings of the 2019 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing and the 9th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing (EMNLP-IJCNLP), pages 6306–6310, Hong Kong, China. Association for Computational Linguistics.