„Garbage in, Garbage out”. The Impact of Coders’ Quality on the Neural Network Classifying Text on Social Media Cover Image

„Śmieci na wejściu, śmieci na wyjściu”. Wpływ jakości koderów na działanie sieci neuronowej klasyfikującej wypowiedzi w mediach społecznościowych
„Garbage in, Garbage out”. The Impact of Coders’ Quality on the Neural Network Classifying Text on Social Media

Author(s): Paweł Matuszewski
Subject(s): Social Sciences
Published by: Instytut Filozofii i Socjologii Polskiej Akademii Nauk
Keywords: text classification; neural networks; supervised models; opinion mining; quality of coders

Summary/Abstract: One of the critical decisions when manually coding text data is whether to verify the coders’ work. In the case of supervised models, this leads to a significant dilemma: is it better to provide the model with a large number of cases on which it will learn at the expense of verifying the correctness of the data, or whether it is better to code each case n-times, which will allow to compare the codes and check their correctness but at the same time will reduce the training dataset by n-fold. Such a decision not only affect the final results of the classifier. From the researchers’ point of view, it is also crucial because, realistically assuming that research has limited funding, it cannot be undone. The study uses a simulation approach and provides conclusions and recommendations based on 100,000 unique and hand-coded tweets.

  • Issue Year: 245/2022
  • Issue No: 2
  • Page Range: 137-164
  • Page Count: 28
  • Language: Polish