Text Segment Classification Task

A Text Segment Classification Task is a classification task that is restricted to mapping text segments to one or more class labels.

• AKA: Text Segment Classification.
• Context:
  • It can be, based on the availability of a training corpus,
    • a Supervised Text Segment Classification Task.
• Example(s):
  • Mention Classification Task, such as a Named Entity Mention Classification Task.
  • a Word Mention Classification Task, such as a Part-of-Speech Classification Task.
  • …
• Counter-Example(s):
  • a Text Item Classification Task.
  • a Text Segmentation Task.
• See: Text Classification Task, Text Tagging Task.

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