Multi-task Learning to Enable Location Mention Identification in the Early Hours of a Crisis Event (2021.findings-emnlp)
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| Challenge: | Social media is a platform for people to share their concerns and report information as eyewitnesses of events. |
| Approach: | They propose a multi-task learning approach to leverage available annotated data for several related tasks from the crisis domain to improve performance on a main task with limited annotation. |
| Outcome: | The proposed approach improves performance on a task with limited annotated data. |
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