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Approach: They develop a pseudo-label based dataless Naive Bayes classifier with seed words . they initialize pseudo-labels for each document using seed word occurrences .
Outcome: The proposed classifier outperforms traditional supervised text classification algorithms with seed words on an imbalanced dataset.

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