Papers by Julius von Kügelgen
Causal Direction of Data Collection Matters: Implications of Causal and Anticausal Learning for NLP (2021.emnlp-main)
Copied to clipboard
Zhijing Jin, Julius von Kügelgen, Jingwei Ni, Tejas Vaidhya, Ayush Kaushal, Mrinmaya Sachan, Bernhard Schoelkopf
| Challenge: | a meta-analysis of published studies shows that the causal direction of data collection can explain some trends in NLP . semi-supervised learning and domain adaptation performance differ on a number of tasks . |
| Approach: | They argue that the causal direction of the data collection process has nontrivial implications . authors categorize common NLP tasks according to their causal direction . they also empirically assay the validity of the ICM principle for text data . |
| Outcome: | The proposed model can explain differences in semi-supervised learning and domain adaptation performance across settings. |