FIND: Human-in-the-loop debugging deep text classifiers
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Accepted version
Author(s)
Lertvittayakumjorn, Piyawat
Specia, Lucia
Toni, Francesca
Type
Conference Paper
Abstract
Since obtaining a perfect training dataset (i.e., a dataset which is considerably large, unbiased, and well-representative of unseen cases)is hardly possible, many real-world text classifiers are trained on the available, yet imperfect, datasets. These classifiers are thus likely to have undesirable properties. For instance, they may have biases against some sub-populations or may not work effectively in the wild due to overfitting. In this paper, we propose FIND–a framework which enables humans to debug deep learning text classifiers by disabling irrelevant hidden features. Experiments show that by using FIND, humans can improve CNN text classifiers which were trained under different types of imperfect datasets (including datasets with biases and datasets with dissimilar train-test distributions).
Date Acceptance
2020-09-14
Publisher
ACL
Copyright Statement
© 2020 The Author(s)
Source
2020 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing
Publication Status
Accepted
Start Date
2020-11-16
Finish Date
2020-11-20
Coverage Spatial
Virtual