Guoyin Wang, Chunyuan Li, Wenlin Wang, Yizhe Zhang, Dinghan Shen, Xinyuan Zhang, Ricardo Henao, Lawrence Carin
| Challenge: | Existing approaches to text classification use word embeddings to capture semantic regularities between words. |
| Approach: | They propose to view text classification as a label-word joint embedding problem . they use a framework that measures compatibility between text sequences and labels . |
| Outcome: | The proposed framework outperforms the state-of-the-art methods on large text datasets. |
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