Distributional correspondence indexing for cross-language text categorization

Esuli A, Fernandez Am

Cross-Language Text Categorization  Distributional Semantics  Sentiment Analysis 

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.