Title: Training a Neural Network in a Low-Resource Setting on Automatically Annotated Noisy Data,
Abstract: Manually labeled corpora are expensive to create and often not available for
low-resource languages or domains. Automatic labeling approaches are an
alternative way to obtain labeled data in a quicker and cheaper way. However,
these labels often contain more errors which can deteriorate a classifier's
performance when trained on this data. We propose a noise layer that is added
to a neural network architecture. This allows modeling the noise and train on a
combination of clean and noisy data. We show that in a low-resource NER task we
can improve performance by up to 35% by using additional, noisy data and
handling the noise.