[R] GZIP vs Bag-of-Words for text classification

Hi,

same as other folks, I was quite curious about the recent [GZIP paper](https://aclanthology.org/2023.findings-acl.426/) presented at ACL 2023, where the authors demonstrate strong text classification performance by using a compression-based distance function in a KNN model.

However, in the end, I am not sure whether GZIP can fully live up to the hype. I tested a very simple bag-of-words distance and found that it can achieve better results compared with GZIP, while being also faster.

In a nutshell, I think …

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