The effectiveness of compression in text classification ('gzip') has recently garnered lots of attention. In this note we show that `bag-of-words' approaches can achieve similar or better results, and are more efficient.

翻译：压缩技术在文本分类（即“gzip”方法）中的有效性近期引起了广泛关注。本文指出，基于“词袋模型”的方法能够取得与之相当甚至更优的结果，且具有更高的效率。