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Structured Output Learning with Abstention: Application to Accurate Opinion Prediction
Alexandre Garcia · Telecom-ParisTech Chloé Clavel · Slim Essid · Florence d'Alche-Buc

Thu Jul 12 02:40 AM -- 02:50 AM (PDT) @ A5

Motivated by Supervised Opinion Analysis, we propose a novel framework devoted to Structured Output Learning with Abstention (SOLA). The structure prediction model is able to abstain from predicting some labels in the structured output at a cost chosen by the user in a flexible way. For that purpose, we decompose the problem into the learning of a pair of predictors, one devoted to structured abstention and the other, to structured output prediction. To compare fully labeled training data with predictions potentially containing abstentions, we define a wide class of asymmetric abstention-aware losses. Learning is achieved by surrogate regression in an appropriate feature space while prediction with abstention is performed by solving a new pre-image problem. Thus, SOLA extends recent ideas about Structured Output Prediction via surrogate problems and calibration theory and enjoys statistical guarantees on the resulting excess risk. Instantiated on a hierarchical abstention-aware loss, SOLA is shown to be relevant for fine-grained opinion mining and gives state-of-the-art results on this task. Moreover, the abstention-aware representations can be used to competitively predict user-review ratings based on a sentence-level opinion predictor.

Author Information

Alexandre Garcia (Telecom Paristech)
Telecom-ParisTech Chloé Clavel (LTCI, Telecom-ParisTech, Paris, France)
Slim Essid (Telecom ParisTech)
Florence d'Alche-Buc (Télécom ParisTech, Université Paris-Saclay,Paris, France)

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