Automatic Generation of Language-Independent Featuresfor Cross-Lingual Classification
Table 3: The Effect of Hierarchical Feature Generation
['Source', 'Target', 'LIFG – w/o  [ITALIC] CMeta', 'LIFG – w/  [ITALIC] CMeta']
As can be seen, the result improvement is significant – about 10% on average. Clearly, abstract features significantly contributes to performance, and should, therefore, be used when available.