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Cross-Language Text Categorization (CLTC) aims at producing a classifier for a target language when the only available training examples belong to a different source language. Existing CLTC methods are usually affected by high computational costs, require external linguistic resources, or demand a considerable human annotation effort. This paper presents a simple, yet effective, CLTC method based on projecting features from both source and target languages into a common vector space, by using a computationally lightweight distributional correspondence profile with respect to a small set of pivot terms. Experiments on a popular sentiment classification dataset show that our method performs favorably to state-of-the-art methods, requiring a significantly reduced computational cost and minimal human intervention.
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Esuli, A., Moreo Fernández, A. (2015). Distributional Correspondence Indexing for Cross-Language Text Categorization. In: Hanbury, A., Kazai, G., Rauber, A., Fuhr, N. (eds) Advances in Information Retrieval. ECIR 2015. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 9022. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-16354-3_12
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