An Auxiliary Task Boosted Multi-task Learning Method for Service Account Retrieval with Limited Human Annotation (2023.emnlp-industry)
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| Challenge: | Existing approaches to service account retrieval have limited human annotation, resulting in labor-intensive and time-consuming tasks. |
| Approach: | They propose an Auxiliary task Boosted Multi-Task Learning method which introduces multiple auxiliary tasks and enhances the performance of the main task, service account retrieval. |
| Outcome: | The proposed method improves the performance of the main task, service account retrieval. |
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