TY - CONF ID - esann16zeroshot T1 - Using Semantic Similarity for Multi-Label Zero-Shot Classification of Text Documents A1 - Sappadla, Prateek Veeranna A1 - Nam, Jinseok A1 - Loza Mencía, Eneldo A1 - Fürnkranz, Johannes TI - Proceedings of the 23rd European Symposium on Artificial Neural Networks, Computational Intelligence and Machine Learning (ESANN-16) Y1 - 2016 PB - d-side publications AD - Bruges, Belgium UR - https://www.elen.ucl.ac.be/Proceedings/esann/esannpdf/es2016-174.pdf N2 - In this paper, we examine a simple approach to zero-shot multi-label text classification, i.e., to the problem of predicting multiple, possibly previously unseen labels for a document. In particular, we propose to use a semantic embed- ding of label and document words and base the prediction of previously unseen labels on the similarity between the label name and the document words in this em- bedding. Experiments on three textual datasets across various domains show that even such a simple technique yields considerable performance improvements over a simple uninformed baseline. ER -