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Unsupervised Domain Adaptation With Global and Local Graph Neural Networks Under Limited Supervision and Its Application to Disaster Response
S. Ghosh, S. Maji,
Published in Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
2022
Volume: 10
   
Issue: 2
Pages: 551 - 562
Abstract
Identification and categorization of social media posts generated during disasters are crucial to reduce the suffering of the affected people. However, the lack of labeled data is a significant bottleneck in learning an effective categorization system for a disaster. This motivates us to study the problem as unsupervised domain adaptation (UDA) between a previous disaster with labeled data (source) and a current disaster (target). However, if the amount of labeled data available is limited, it restricts the learning capabilities of the model. To handle this challenge, we use limited labeled data along with abundantly available unlabeled data, generated during a source disaster to propose a novel two-part graph neural network (GNN). The first part extracts domain-agnostic global information by constructing a token-level graph across domains and the second part preserves local instance-level semantics. In our experiments, we show that the proposed method outperforms state-of-the-art techniques by 2.74% weighted F₁ score on average on two standard public datasets in the area of disaster management. We also report experimental results for granular actionable multilabel classification datasets in disaster domain for the first time, on which we outperform BERT by 3.00% on average w.r.t. weighted F₁. Additionally, we show that our approach can retain performance when minimal labeled data are available. IEEE
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JournalData powered by TypesetIEEE Transactions on Computational Social Systems
PublisherData powered by TypesetInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
ISSN2329924X
Open AccessNo