CAISA at SemEval-2023 Task 8: Counterfactual Data Augmentation for Mitigating Class Imbalance in Causal Claim Identification
The class imbalance problem can cause machine learning models to produce an undesirable performance on the minority class as well as the whole dataset. Using data augmentation techniques to increase the number of samples is one way to tackle this problem. We introduce a novel counterfactual data augmentation by verb replacement for the identification of medical claims. In addition, we investigate the impact of this method and compare it with 3 other data augmentation techniques, showing that the proposed method can result in a significant (relative) improvement in the minority class.
- Published in:
Proceedings of the 17th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation - Type:
Inproceedings - Authors:
Karimi, Akbar; Flek, Lucie - Year:
2023
Citation information
Karimi, Akbar; Flek, Lucie: CAISA at SemEval-2023 Task 8: Counterfactual Data Augmentation for Mitigating Class Imbalance in Causal Claim Identification, Proceedings of the 17th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation, 2023, Association for Computational Linguistics, https://aclanthology.org/2023.semeval-1.292/, Karimi.Flek.2023a,
@Inproceedings{Karimi.Flek.2023a,
author={Karimi, Akbar; Flek, Lucie},
title={CAISA at SemEval-2023 Task 8: Counterfactual Data Augmentation for Mitigating Class Imbalance in Causal Claim Identification},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 17th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation},
publisher={Association for Computational Linguistics},
url={https://aclanthology.org/2023.semeval-1.292/},
year={2023},
abstract={The class imbalance problem can cause machine learning models to produce an undesirable performance on the minority class as well as the whole dataset. Using data augmentation techniques to increase the number of samples is one way to tackle this problem. We introduce a novel counterfactual data augmentation by verb replacement for the identification of medical claims. In addition, we investigate...}}
