Linear Classifier: An Often-Forgotten Baseline for Text Classification (2023.acl-short)
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| Challenge: | Large-scale pre-trained language models such as BERT are popular solutions for text classification. |
| Approach: | They argue that large-scale pre-trained language models such as BERT are popular solutions for text classification . authors argue that running a simple baseline like linear classifiers on bag-of-words features is important for text classification . |
| Outcome: | The proposed approach may only sometimes get satisfactory results for some problems. |
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