Survival text regression for time-to-event prediction in conversations (2021.findings-acl)
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| Challenge: | a recent study has modelled time-to-event prediction tasks as classification tasks . authors: this is contrived and less informative than traditional classification models . |
| Approach: | They propose to frame time-to-event prediction tasks as classification tasks . they use survival regression techniques commonly used in healthcare and reliability engineering . |
| Outcome: | The proposed models outperform text regression methods and comparable classification models on three datasets. |
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