Segev Shlomov

The Hitchhiker’s Guide to Testing Statistical Significance in Natural Language Processing

2018

Statistical significance testing is a standard statistical tool designed to ensure that experimental results are not coincidental. In this opinion/theoretical paper we discuss the role of statistical significance testing in Natural Language Processing (NLP) research. …

Do Not Have Enough Data? Deep Learning to the Rescue!

2020 · Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence

Based on recent advances in natural language modeling and those in text generation capabilities, we propose a novel data augmentation method for text classification tasks. We use a powerful pre-trained neural network model to artificially …