Constructing contrastive samples via summarization for text classification with limited annotations (2021.findings-emnlp)
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| Challenge: | Various contrastive learning methods have been developed and lead to state-of-the-art performance in many computer vision tasks. |
| Approach: | They propose a method to construct efficient contrastive samples using text summarization to gain better representations of text classification tasks with limited annotations. |
| Outcome: | The proposed framework gains better representations on text classification tasks with limited annotations and is compared with existing methods on real-world text classification datasets. |
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