Challenge: a lack of research on efficient methods for topic classification of text is limiting . conical classification is a computationally efficient way to identify documents of a particular topic .
Approach: They propose a Conical classification approach that can identify if a document is of a particular topic . they propose 'normal exclusion' approach that is faster to compute and has higher predictive power .
Outcome: The proposed method has higher predictive power and is faster to compute.

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