All-In-1 at IJCNLP-2017 Task 4: Short Text Classification with One Model for All Languages

Barbara Plank


Abstract
We present All-In-1, a simple model for multilingual text classification that does not require any parallel data. It is based on a traditional Support Vector Machine classifier exploiting multilingual word embeddings and character n-grams. Our model is simple, easily extendable yet very effective, overall ranking 1st (out of 12 teams) in the IJCNLP 2017 shared task on customer feedback analysis in four languages: English, French, Japanese and Spanish.
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I17-4024
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Proceedings of the IJCNLP 2017, Shared Tasks
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December
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2017
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Taipei, Taiwan
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Chao-Hong Liu, Preslav Nakov, Nianwen Xue
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IJCNLP
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Asian Federation of Natural Language Processing
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143–148
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Barbara Plank. 2017. All-In-1 at IJCNLP-2017 Task 4: Short Text Classification with One Model for All Languages. In Proceedings of the IJCNLP 2017, Shared Tasks, pages 143–148, Taipei, Taiwan. Asian Federation of Natural Language Processing.
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