Appendix - Recommended Statistical Significance Tests for NLP Tasks
Statistical significance testing plays an important role when drawing conclusions from experimental results in NLP papers. Particularly, it is a valuable tool when one would like to establish the superiority of one algorithm over another. This appendix complements the guide for testing statistical significance in NLP presented in dror2018hitchhiker by proposing valid statistical tests for the common tasks and evaluation measures in the field.
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