Classification of Tabular Data by Text Processing
This addresses classification tasks for tabular data users, but it is incremental as it adapts existing text methods to a new domain.
The paper tackles classification on tabular data by applying text processing techniques, achieving comparable performance to state-of-the-art models in accuracy, precision, and recall across several datasets.
Natural Language Processing technology has advanced vastly in the past decade. Text processing has been successfully applied to a wide variety of domains. In this paper, we propose a novel framework, Text Based Classification(TBC), that uses state of the art text processing techniques to solve classification tasks on tabular data. We provide a set of controlled experiments where we present the benefits of using this approach against other classification methods. Experimental results on several data sets also show that this framework achieves comparable performance to that of several state of the art models in accuracy, precision and recall of predicted classes.