# Khmer Text Classification Using Word Embedding and Neural Networks

arXiv: https://arxiv.org/abs/2112.06748 · HTML: https://mlsanity.com/paper/2112.06748/

## Key facts

- Cited by 1 papers in the map (data through 14 Oct 2026).
- Builds on 4 of its 16 references that are in the map.
- First posted on arXiv 13 Dec 2021.

## Builds on (most cited first, 4 of 4)

- [Enriching Word Vectors with Subword Information](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1607.04606/) (2016)
- [Convolutional Neural Networks for Sentence Classification](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1408.5882/) (2014)
- [Bag of Tricks for Efficient Text Classification](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1607.01759/) (2016)
- [A Unified Framework for Multiclass and Multilabel Support Vector Machines](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2003.11197/) (2020)

## Built on by (most cited first, 1 of 1)

- [LR-Sum: Summarization for Less-Resourced Languages](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2212.09674/) (2022)

## Abstract (arXiv)

Text classification is one of the fundamental tasks in natural language processing to label an open-ended text and is useful for various applications such as sentiment analysis. In this paper, we discuss various classification approaches for Khmer text, ranging from a classical TF-IDF algorithm with support vector machine classifier to modern word embedding-based neural network classifiers including linear layer model, recurrent neural network and convolutional neural network. A Khmer word embedding model is trained on a 30-million-Khmer-word corpus to construct word vector representations that are used to train three different neural network classifiers. We evaluate the performance of different approaches on a news article dataset for both multi-class and multi-label text classification tasks. The result suggests that neural network classifiers using a word embedding model consistently outperform the traditional classifier using TF-IDF. The recurrent neural network classifier provides a slightly better result compared to the convolutional network and the linear layer network.