Improving the results of string kernels in sentiment analysis and Arabic dialect identification by adapting them to your test set (D18-1)
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| Challenge: | Recent studies have demonstrated remarkable performance in text classification tasks such as Arabic dialect identification. |
| Approach: | They propose two approaches to improve string kernels' accuracy in Arabic and English . first approach interprets pairwise string kernel similarities between training and test sets as features . second approach adapts to training set and adds test samples for another round of training . |
| Outcome: | The proposed methods improve English polarity classification and Arabic dialect identification. |
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