Task: Language Identification
Input (Spanish, English): This paper explores the use of Open Bigrams as a target representation of words, for application to handwriting image recognition.   Pros: - The use of OBs is novel and interesting. - Clearly written and explained.  Cons: - No comparison to previous state of the art, only with author-generated results.  - More ablation studies needed -- i.e. fill in Table3 with rnn0,1 rnn0,1,2 rnn0,1' etc etc. It is not clear where the performance is coming from, as it seems that it is single character modelling (0) and word endings (') that are actually beneficial. - While the use of Open bigrams is novel, there are works which use bag of bigrams and ngrams as models which are not really compared to or explored. E.g.
Output (English): en