Text Classification using Graph Convolutional Networks: A Comprehensive Survey
It provides an updated review for researchers and practitioners working on text classification in domains like sentiment analysis and fake news detection, but it is incremental as it synthesizes existing work rather than introducing new methods.
This survey summarizes and categorizes Graph Convolutional Network (GCN)-based approaches for text classification, which have achieved state-of-the-art performance in recent literature, and compares their performance on various benchmark datasets.
Text classification is a quintessential and practical problem in natural language processing with applications in diverse domains such as sentiment analysis, fake news detection, medical diagnosis, and document classification. A sizable body of recent works exists where researchers have studied and tackled text classification from different angles with varying degrees of success. Graph convolution network (GCN)-based approaches have gained a lot of traction in this domain over the last decade with many implementations achieving state-of-the-art performance in more recent literature and thus, warranting the need for an updated survey. This work aims to summarize and categorize various GCN-based Text Classification approaches with regard to the architecture and mode of supervision. It identifies their strengths and limitations and compares their performance on various benchmark datasets. We also discuss future research directions and the challenges that exist in this domain.