EPiDA: An Easy Plug-in Data Augmentation Framework for High Performance Text Classification (2022.naacl-main)
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| Challenge: | Existing methods for data augmentation do not fully exploit the potential of DA in NLP. |
| Approach: | They propose an easy and plug-in framework for data augmentation to support effective text classification. |
| Outcome: | The proposed framework outperforms existing methods in most cases, but not using agent networks or pre-trained generation networks. |
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