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In this section, we collect publications, tutorials, and other resources that have used small-text.

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Papers
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2026
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- | Brielen Madureira, Mariana Madruga de Brito, and Andreas Niekler. 2026.
  | `Retrieving Floods without Floodlights: Topic Models as Binary Classifiers for Extreme Climate Events in German News <https://arxiv.org/pdf/2605.03450>`_
  | ArXiv, abs/2605.03450

- | Jakob Steglich and Stephan Poppe. 2026.
  | `Active Learning for Corpus Refinement: Cost-Effective Preprocessing to Improve Validity of Applied Quantitative Text Analysis <https://aclanthology.org/2026.eacl-srw.70/>`_
  | In: Proceedings of the 19th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 4: Student Research Workshop), pages 952–966.

2025
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- | Juliana Silva Barbosa, Ulhas Gondhali, Gohar Petrossian, Kinshuk Sharma, Sunandan Chakraborty, Jennifer Jacquet, and Juliana Freire. 2025.
  | `A Cost-Effective LLM-based Approach to Identify Wildlife Trafficking in Online Marketplaces <https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3725256>`_
  | Proc. ACM Manag. Data 3, 3, Article 119 (June 2025), pages 1–23.

- | Aida Halitaj and Arkaitz Zubiaga. 2025.
  | `ALPET: Active few-shot learning for citation worthiness detection in low-resource Wikipedia languages <https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eswa.2025.127503>`_
  | In: Expert Systems with Applications, Volume 281, 2025.

2024
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- | Lukas Kriesch and Sebastian Losacker. 2024.
  | `A global patent dataset of bioeconomy-related inventions <https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-024-04163-6>`_
  | In: Scientific Data Volume 11, Article number: 1308.

- | David Hanny, Sebastian Schmidt, and Bernd Resch. 2024.
  | `Active Learning for Identifying Disaster-Related Tweets: A Comparison with Keyword Filtering and Generic Fine-Tuning. <https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-66428-1_8>`_
  | In: Intelligent Systems and Applications (IntelliSys 2024). Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems, pages 126–142.

- | Muhammad Afzal, Jamil Hussain, Asim Abbas, Maqbool Hussain, Muhammad Attique, and Sungyoung Lee. 2024.
  | `Transformer-based active learning for multi-class text annotation and classification. <https://doi.org/10.1177/20552076241287357>`_
  | In: DIGITAL HEALTH Volume 10.

- | Christopher Schröder and Gerhard Heyer. 2024.
  | `Self-Training for Sample-Efficient Active Learning for Text Classification with Pre-Trained Language Models <https://aclanthology.org/2024.emnlp-main.669.pdf>`_
  | In Proceedings of the 2024 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, pages 11987–12004. Association for Computational Linguistics.

2023
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- | David Kartchner, Irfan Al-Hussaini, Haydn Turner, Jennifer Deng, Shubham Lohiya, Prasanth Bathala, and Cassie S. Mitchell. 2023.
  | `BioSift: A Dataset for Filtering Biomedical Abstracts for Drug Repurposing and Clinical Meta-Analysis. <https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3539618.3591897>`_
  | In: Proceedings of the 46th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, pages 2913–2923.

- | Klaus Schmidt, Andreas Niekler, Cathleen Kantner, and Manuel Burghardt. 2023.
  | `Classifying Speech Acts in Political Communication: A Transformer-based Approach with Weak Supervision and Active Learning <http://dx.doi.org/10.15439/2023F3485>`_
  | In: Proceedings of the 18th Conference on Computer Science and Intelligence Systems, ACSIS, Vol. 35, pages 739–748.

2022
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- | Hannah Kirk, Bertie Vidgen, and Scott Hale. 2022.
  | `Is More Data Better? Re-thinking the Importance of Efficiency in Abusive Language Detection with Transformers-Based Active Learning. <https://aclanthology.org/2022.trac-1.7/>`_
  | In Proceedings of the Third Workshop on Threat, Aggression and Cyberbullying (TRAC 2022), pages 52–61, Gyeongju, Republic of Korea. Association for Computational Linguistics.

- | Julius Gonsior, Christian Falkenberg, Silvio Magino, Anja Reusch, Maik Thiele, and Wolfgang Lehner. 2022.
  | `To Softmax, or not to Softmax: that is the question when applying Active Learning for Transformer Models. <https://arxiv.org/abs/2210.03005>`_
  | ArXiv, abs/2210.03005.

- | Julia Romberg and Tobias Escher. 2022.
  | `Automated Topic Categorisation of Citizens’ Contributions: Reducing Manual Labelling Efforts Through Active Learning. <https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-031-15086-9_24>`_
  | In EGOV 2022: Electronic Government, pages 369–385, Cham. Springer International Publishing.

- | Christopher Schröder, Andreas Niekler, and Martin Potthast. 2022.
  | `Revisiting Uncertainty-based Query Strategies for Active Learning with Transformers. <https://aclanthology.org/2022.findings-acl.172/>`_
  | In Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2022, pages 2194–2203.

Tutorials
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- | `👂 Active learning for text classification with small-text <https://docs.v1.argilla.io/en/latest/tutorials/notebooks/training-textclassification-smalltext-activelearning.html>`_