BrightCookies at SemEval-2025 Task 9: Exploring Data Augmentation for Food Hazard Classification
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| author | Papadopoulou, Foteini Mutlu, Osman Özen, Neris van der Velden, Bas H. M. Hendrickx, Iris Hürriyetoğlu, Ali |
| author_facet | Papadopoulou, Foteini Mutlu, Osman Özen, Neris van der Velden, Bas H. M. Hendrickx, Iris Hürriyetoğlu, Ali |
| contents | This paper presents our system developed for the SemEval-2025 Task 9: The Food Hazard Detection Challenge. The shared task's objective is to evaluate explainable classification systems for classifying hazards and products in two levels of granularity from food recall incident reports. In this work, we propose text augmentation techniques as a way to improve poor performance on minority classes and compare their effect for each category on various transformer and machine learning models. We explore three word-level data augmentation techniques, namely synonym replacement, random word swapping, and contextual word insertion. The results show that transformer models tend to have a better overall performance. None of the three augmentation techniques consistently improved overall performance for classifying hazards and products. We observed a statistically significant improvement (P < 0.05) in the fine-grained categories when using the BERT model to compare the baseline with each augmented model. Compared to the baseline, the contextual words insertion augmentation improved the accuracy of predictions for the minority hazard classes by 6%. This suggests that targeted augmentation of minority classes can improve the performance of transformer models. |
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| spellingShingle | BrightCookies at SemEval-2025 Task 9: Exploring Data Augmentation for Food Hazard Classification Papadopoulou, Foteini Mutlu, Osman Özen, Neris van der Velden, Bas H. M. Hendrickx, Iris Hürriyetoğlu, Ali Computation and Language This paper presents our system developed for the SemEval-2025 Task 9: The Food Hazard Detection Challenge. The shared task's objective is to evaluate explainable classification systems for classifying hazards and products in two levels of granularity from food recall incident reports. In this work, we propose text augmentation techniques as a way to improve poor performance on minority classes and compare their effect for each category on various transformer and machine learning models. We explore three word-level data augmentation techniques, namely synonym replacement, random word swapping, and contextual word insertion. The results show that transformer models tend to have a better overall performance. None of the three augmentation techniques consistently improved overall performance for classifying hazards and products. We observed a statistically significant improvement (P < 0.05) in the fine-grained categories when using the BERT model to compare the baseline with each augmented model. Compared to the baseline, the contextual words insertion augmentation improved the accuracy of predictions for the minority hazard classes by 6%. This suggests that targeted augmentation of minority classes can improve the performance of transformer models. |
| title | BrightCookies at SemEval-2025 Task 9: Exploring Data Augmentation for Food Hazard Classification |
| topic | Computation and Language |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.20703 |