Benchmarking Zero-shot Text Classification: Datasets, Evaluation and Entailment Approach (D19-1)
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| Challenge: | 0Shot-TC is a challenging NLU problem to which little attention has been paid by the research community. |
| Approach: | They propose to use a standardized evaluation system to classify text snippets without seeing task specific training data. |
| Outcome: | The proposed model is based on a set of standardized evaluations and state-of-the-art baselines. |
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