Sampling
Once we have the entire corpus in the form of lists, we need to perform some form of sampling. Typically, the way to sample the entire corpus in development train sets, dev-test sets, and test sets is similar to the sampling shown in the following figure.
The idea behind the whole exercise is to avoid overfitting. If we feed all the data points to the model, then the algorithm will learn from the entire corpus, but the real test of these algorithms is to perform on unseen data. In very simplistic terms, if we are using the entire data in the model learning process the classifier will perform very good on this data, but it will not be robust. The reason being, we have to tune it to perform the best on the given data, but it doesn't learn ...
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