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How Well Do Decision Models Transfer to Vietnamese? An Empirical Study of Text Classification
Empirical study evaluating four specialized decision models on zero-shot text classification in Vietnamese across 13 classification settings and six task groups, testing English, Vietnamese, and bilingual label descriptions plus teencode, typo, and diacritic perturbations.
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Highlights
- Evaluates four specialized decision models across 13 classification settings spanning six task groups.
- Tests English, Vietnamese, and bilingual label descriptions for zero-shot text classification.
- JEV ranks first in 11 classification settings when English label descriptions are used.
- Diacritic removal reduces mean macro-F1 by 9.51-15.47 points across model configurations.
- Bilingual label descriptions give no consistent improvement over single-language descriptions.
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It evaluates four specialized decision models on zero-shot text classification in Vietnamese, covering 13 classification settings across six task groups. It measures overall performance, sensitivity to label-description language, and robustness to common Vietnamese linguistic variations.
The study compares English, Vietnamese, and bilingual label descriptions. Effects varied across models and datasets, and bilingual descriptions did not provide a consistent improvement over the other choices.
Under English label descriptions, JEV achieves the strongest overall performance and ranks first in 11 of the classification settings examined.
Diacritic removal causes the most substantial performance degradation, reducing mean macro-F1 by 9.51 to 15.47 points across model configurations. This is considerably more than teencode or typographical errors.
The paper reports mean macro-F1, noting that diacritic removal lowers it by 9.51 to 15.47 points across model configurations.
The provided digest describes an empirical study and does not mention code, datasets, installation steps, or a runnable benchmark release. It is best treated as a paper write-up.
The study focuses on zero-shot text classification in Vietnamese across six task groups. It is not presented as a general evaluation of Jev behavior in other languages, tasks, or production deployment settings.
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