12 - Textual Data Augmentation
Boost your performance by creating data out of data, instead of new data.
The amount of available textual (training) data influences the performance of many NLP tasks. If collecting more data is not an option, there are different techniques for boosting performance on your NLP task.
Data augmentations are a standard part for Computer Visions tasks. However, due to the grammatical structure, the task is much more delicate for textual data and Natural Language Generation.
Here are some examples of how the textual data is transformed by Easy Data Augmentation (EDA) techniques and Back Translation:
Data Augmentation might not help, but it’s worth the shot if you are stuck. Whatever you do; do not validate with augmented textual data!
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