Leveraging Data Augmentation for Process Information Extraction

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2404.07501v1
• Date: Thu, 11 Apr 2024 06:32:03 GMT
• Title: Leveraging Data Augmentation for Process Information Extraction
• Authors: Julian Neuberger, Leonie Doll, Benedict Engelmann, Lars Ackermann, Stefan Jablonski,
• Abstract summary: We investigate the application of data augmentation for natural language text data. Data augmentation is an important component in enabling machine learning methods for the task of business process model generation from natural language text.
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• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: Business Process Modeling projects often require formal process models as a central component. High costs associated with the creation of such formal process models motivated many different fields of research aimed at automated generation of process models from readily available data. These include process mining on event logs, and generating business process models from natural language texts. Research in the latter field is regularly faced with the problem of limited data availability, hindering both evaluation and development of new techniques, especially learning-based ones. To overcome this data scarcity issue, in this paper we investigate the application of data augmentation for natural language text data. Data augmentation methods are well established in machine learning for creating new, synthetic data without human assistance. We find that many of these methods are applicable to the task of business process information extraction, improving the accuracy of extraction. Our study shows, that data augmentation is an important component in enabling machine learning methods for the task of business process model generation from natural language text, where currently mostly rule-based systems are still state of the art. Simple data augmentation techniques improved the $F_1$ score of mention extraction by 2.9 percentage points, and the $F_1$ of relation extraction by $4.5$. To better understand how data augmentation alters human annotated texts, we analyze the resulting text, visualizing and discussing the properties of augmented textual data. We make all code and experiments results publicly available.

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