Liyuan Zhou


2018

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EPUTION at SemEval-2018 Task 2: Emoji Prediction with User Adaption
Liyuan Zhou | Qiongkai Xu | Hanna Suominen | Tom Gedeon
Proceedings of the 12th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation

This paper describes our approach, called EPUTION, for the open trial of the SemEval- 2018 Task 2, Multilingual Emoji Prediction. The task relates to using social media — more precisely, Twitter — with its aim to predict the most likely associated emoji of a tweet. Our solution for this text classification problem explores the idea of transfer learning for adapting the classifier based on users’ tweeting history. Our experiments show that our user-adaption method improves classification results by more than 6 per cent on the macro-averaged F1. Thus, our paper provides evidence for the rationality of enriching the original corpus longitudinally with user behaviors and transferring the lessons learned from corresponding users to specific instances.

2016

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Named Entity Recognition for Novel Types by Transfer Learning
Lizhen Qu | Gabriela Ferraro | Liyuan Zhou | Weiwei Hou | Timothy Baldwin
Proceedings of the 2016 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing

2015

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Big Data Small Data, In Domain Out-of Domain, Known Word Unknown Word: The Impact of Word Representations on Sequence Labelling Tasks
Lizhen Qu | Gabriela Ferraro | Liyuan Zhou | Weiwei Hou | Nathan Schneider | Timothy Baldwin
Proceedings of the Nineteenth Conference on Computational Natural Language Learning