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Data Boost: Text Data Augmentation Through Reinforcement Learning Guided Conditional Generation

Ruibo Liu, Guangxuan Xu, Chenyan Jia, Weicheng Ma, Lili Wang, Soroush Vosoughi . Proceedings of the 2020 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP) 2020 – 59 citations

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Compositional Generalization EMNLP Image Text Integration Interdisciplinary Approaches Multimodal Semantic Representation Reinforcement Learning Tools Training Techniques Visual Contextualization

Data augmentation is proven to be effective in many NLU tasks, especially for those suffering from data scarcity. In this paper, we present a powerful and easy to deploy text augmentation framework, Data Boost, which augments data through reinforcement learning guided conditional generation. We evaluate Data Boost on three diverse text classification tasks under five different classifier architectures. The result shows that Data Boost can boost the performance of classifiers especially in low-resource data scenarios. For instance, Data Boost improves F1 for the three tasks by 8.7% on average when given only 10% of the whole data for training. We also compare Data Boost with six prior text augmentation methods. Through human evaluations (N=178), we confirm that Data Boost augmentation has comparable quality as the original data with respect to readability and class consistency.

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