Active Learning

Machine Learning for Passive Acoustic Wildlife Monitoring: Methods for Semi-Automated Population and Species Assessment

Passive acoustic monitoring (PAM) has become a powerful tool for studying wildlife by continuously recording environmental soundscapes. However, analysing large acoustic datasets remains highly time-consuming, as recordings are often annotated manually by domain experts. In this work, we investigate how machine learning can support scalable biodiversity monitoring by enabling efficient Read more

By Franziska Scheurer, ago

Optimizing Relation Extraction in Medical Texts through Active Learning: A Comparative Analysis of Trade-offs

Example from n2c2 of relation extraction [1]  This work explores the effectiveness of employing Clinical BERT for Relation Extraction (RE) tasks in medical texts within an Active Learning (AL) framework. Our main objective is to optimize RE in medical texts through AL while examining the trade-offs between performance and computation Read more

By Franziska Scheurer, ago

Interactive annotation of passive acoustic monitoring datasets

Passive acoustic monitoring (PAM), the recording of sounds using microphones (e.g. in biosphere reserves), is an increasingly popular method for continuous, reproducible, scalable and cost-effective monitoring of wildlife [Sugai et al., 2018]. It is widely employed in various fields, including ecology, marine biology, and conservation, to study animal behavior, biodiversity, Read more

By Franziska Scheurer, ago