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20192021
most citedImproving short text classification through global augmentation methods

65 citations · 103 across the 5 of their papers we have counts for

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5 papers

cs.CL2021★ 25 cited

NL-Augmenter: A Framework for Task-Sensitive Natural Language Augmentation

Kaustubh D. Dhole, Varun Gangal, Sebastian Gehrmann +122

Data augmentation is an important component in the robustness evaluation of models in natural language processing (NLP) and in enhancing the diversity of the data they are trained…

cs.CL2021

Training Cross-Lingual embeddings for Setswana and Sepedi

Mack Makgatho, Vukosi Marivate, Tshephisho Sefara +1

African languages still lag in the advances of Natural Language Processing techniques, one reason being the lack of representative data, having a technique that can transfer inform…

cs.CL2020★ 3 cited

Low resource language dataset creation, curation and classification: Setswana and Sepedi -- Extended Abstract

Vukosi Marivate, Tshephisho Sefara, Vongani Chabalala +4

The recent advances in Natural Language Processing have only been a boon for well represented languages, negating research in lesser known global languages. This is in part due to…

cs.CL2020★ 10 cited

Investigating an approach for low resource language dataset creation, curation and classification: Setswana and Sepedi

Vukosi Marivate, Tshephisho Sefara, Vongani Chabalala +4

The recent advances in Natural Language Processing have been a boon for well-represented languages in terms of available curated data and research resources. One of the challenges…

cs.CL2019★ 65 cited

Improving short text classification through global augmentation methods

Vukosi Marivate, Tshephisho Sefara

We study the effect of different approaches to text augmentation. To do this we use 3 datasets that include social media and formal text in the form of news articles. Our goal is t…