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Word Combination Kernel for Text Classification with Support Vector Machines
In this paper we propose a novel kernel for text categorization. This kernel is an inner product defined in the feature space generated by all word combinations of specified length. A word combination is a collection of unique words co-occurring in the same sentence. The word combination of length k is weighted by the k rm th root of the product of the inverse document frequencies (IDF) of its words. By discarding word order, the word combination features are more compatible with the flexibility of natural language and the feature dimensions of documents can be reduced significantly to improve the sparseness of feature representations. By restricting the words to the same sentence and considering multi-word combinations, the word combination features can capture similarity at a more specific level than single words. A computationally simple and efficient algorithm was proposed to calculate this kernel. We conducted a series of experiments on the Reuters-21578 and 20 Newsgroups datasets. This kernel achieves better performance than the word kernel and word-sequence kernel. We also evaluated the computing efficiency of this kernel and observed the impact of the word combination length on performance
An Intelligent System For Arabic Text Categorization
Text Categorization (classification) is the process of classifying documents into a predefined set of categories based on their content. In this paper, an intelligent Arabic text categorization system is presented. Machine learning algorithms are used in this system. Many algorithms for stemming and feature selection are tried. Moreover, the document is represented using several term weighting schemes and finally the k-nearest neighbor and Rocchio classifiers are used for classification process. Experiments are performed over self collected data corpus and the results show that the suggested hybrid method of statistical and light stemmers is the most suitable stemming algorithm for Arabic language. The results also show that a hybrid approach of document frequency and information gain is the preferable feature selection criterion and normalized-tfidf is the best weighting scheme. Finally, Rocchio classifier has the advantage over k-nearest neighbor classifier in the classification process. The experimental results illustrate that the proposed model is an efficient method and gives generalization accuracy of about 98%
Machine Learning in Automated Text Categorization
The automated categorization (or classification) of texts into predefined
categories has witnessed a booming interest in the last ten years, due to the
increased availability of documents in digital form and the ensuing need to
organize them. In the research community the dominant approach to this problem
is based on machine learning techniques: a general inductive process
automatically builds a classifier by learning, from a set of preclassified
documents, the characteristics of the categories. The advantages of this
approach over the knowledge engineering approach (consisting in the manual
definition of a classifier by domain experts) are a very good effectiveness,
considerable savings in terms of expert manpower, and straightforward
portability to different domains. This survey discusses the main approaches to
text categorization that fall within the machine learning paradigm. We will
discuss in detail issues pertaining to three different problems, namely
document representation, classifier construction, and classifier evaluation.Comment: Accepted for publication on ACM Computing Survey
Chi-square-based scoring function for categorization of MEDLINE citations
Objectives: Text categorization has been used in biomedical informatics for
identifying documents containing relevant topics of interest. We developed a
simple method that uses a chi-square-based scoring function to determine the
likelihood of MEDLINE citations containing genetic relevant topic. Methods: Our
procedure requires construction of a genetic and a nongenetic domain document
corpus. We used MeSH descriptors assigned to MEDLINE citations for this
categorization task. We compared frequencies of MeSH descriptors between two
corpora applying chi-square test. A MeSH descriptor was considered to be a
positive indicator if its relative observed frequency in the genetic domain
corpus was greater than its relative observed frequency in the nongenetic
domain corpus. The output of the proposed method is a list of scores for all
the citations, with the highest score given to those citations containing MeSH
descriptors typical for the genetic domain. Results: Validation was done on a
set of 734 manually annotated MEDLINE citations. It achieved predictive
accuracy of 0.87 with 0.69 recall and 0.64 precision. We evaluated the method
by comparing it to three machine learning algorithms (support vector machines,
decision trees, na\"ive Bayes). Although the differences were not statistically
significantly different, results showed that our chi-square scoring performs as
good as compared machine learning algorithms. Conclusions: We suggest that the
chi-square scoring is an effective solution to help categorize MEDLINE
citations. The algorithm is implemented in the BITOLA literature-based
discovery support system as a preprocessor for gene symbol disambiguation
process.Comment: 34 pages, 2 figure
Comparing SVM and Naive Bayes classifiers for text categorization with Wikitology as knowledge enrichment
The activity of labeling of documents according to their content is known as
text categorization. Many experiments have been carried out to enhance text
categorization by adding background knowledge to the document using knowledge
repositories like Word Net, Open Project Directory (OPD), Wikipedia and
Wikitology. In our previous work, we have carried out intensive experiments by
extracting knowledge from Wikitology and evaluating the experiment on Support
Vector Machine with 10- fold cross-validations. The results clearly indicate
Wikitology is far better than other knowledge bases. In this paper we are
comparing Support Vector Machine (SVM) and Na\"ive Bayes (NB) classifiers under
text enrichment through Wikitology. We validated results with 10-fold cross
validation and shown that NB gives an improvement of +28.78%, on the other hand
SVM gives an improvement of +6.36% when compared with baseline results. Na\"ive
Bayes classifier is better choice when external enriching is used through any
external knowledge base.Comment: 5 page
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