Labelwise margin maximization for sequence labeling

  • Authors:
  • Wenjun Gao;Xipeng Qiu;Xuanjing Huang

  • Affiliations:
  • School of Computer Science, Fudan University, China;School of Computer Science, Fudan University, China;School of Computer Science, Fudan University, China

  • Venue:
  • CICLing'11 Proceedings of the 12th international conference on Computational linguistics and intelligent text processing - Volume Part I
  • Year:
  • 2011

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Abstract

In sequence labeling problems, the objective functions of most learning algorithms are usually inconsistent with evaluation measures, such as Hamming loss. In this paper, we propose an online learning algorithm that addresses the problem of labelwise margin maximization for sequence labeling. We decompose the sequence margin to per-label margins and maximize these per-label margins individually, which can result to minimize the Hamming loss of sequence. We compare our algorithm with three state-of-art methods on three tasks, and the experimental results show our algorithm outperforms the others.