@inproceedings{chen-etal-2020-mixtext,
title = "{M}ix{T}ext: Linguistically-Informed Interpolation of Hidden Space for Semi-Supervised Text Classification",
author = "Chen, Jiaao and
Yang, Zichao and
Yang, Diyi",
editor = "Jurafsky, Dan and
Chai, Joyce and
Schluter, Natalie and
Tetreault, Joel",
booktitle = "Proceedings of the 58th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics",
month = jul,
year = "2020",
address = "Online",
publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
url = "https://aclanthology.org/2020.acl-main.194",
doi = "10.18653/v1/2020.acl-main.194",
pages = "2147--2157",
abstract = "This paper presents MixText, a semi-supervised learning method for text classification, which uses our newly designed data augmentation method called TMix. TMix creates a large amount of augmented training samples by interpolating text in hidden space. Moreover, we leverage recent advances in data augmentation to guess low-entropy labels for unlabeled data, hence making them as easy to use as labeled data. By mixing labeled, unlabeled and augmented data, MixText significantly outperformed current pre-trained and fined-tuned models and other state-of-the-art semi-supervised learning methods on several text classification benchmarks. The improvement is especially prominent when supervision is extremely limited. We have publicly released our code at \url{https://github.com/GT-SALT/MixText}.",
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Markdown (Informal)
[MixText: Linguistically-Informed Interpolation of Hidden Space for Semi-Supervised Text Classification](https://aclanthology.org/2020.acl-main.194) (Chen et al., ACL 2020)
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