Title: Trainingless Ontologybased Text Categorization.
1Training-less Ontology-based Text Categorization.
Major professor Dr. Krzysztof J.
Kochut Committee Dr. John A. Miller Dr. Khaled
Rasheed Dr. Amit P. Sheth
December 14th, 2007 PhD Prospectus presentation
2Outline
- Document categorization
- Classic approach to categorization
- Graph categorization and similarity metrics
- Ontology-based approach to categorization
- Algorithm sketch
- Algorithm details and assumptions
- Example and preliminary results
- Planned work and expected results
- References
3Document categorization
- Document classification/categorization is a
problem in information science. The task is to
assign an electronic document to one or more
categories, based on its contents. Wikipedia
4Document categorization by people
- People categorize document by understanding its
content, using their knowledge and understanding
what the category is. - Categorization is based on
- Document content
- Knowledge
- Category
- Perceived interest
features, graphontologycategory
definitioncategorization context
5Automatic text categorization
- Automatic text classification can be defined as
task of assigning category labels to new
documents based on the knowledge gained in a
classification system at the training stage. - require training with pre-classified documents
- Proposed solution
- use already defined knowledge for document
categorization and skip the training stage
6Classic categorization
- Methods are based on word/phrase statistics,
information gain and other probability or
similarity measures. - Examples Sebastiani
- Naïve Bayes, SVM, Decision Tree, k-NN
- Categorization based on information (frequencies,
probabilities) learned from the training
documents. - Vocabulary extension/unification possible by use
of synonyms, homonyms, word groups (eg. from
WordNet) - Document representation for categorization
- Set or vector of features - most popular and
simple bag of words - Does not include information about document
structure, relative position of phrases, etc.
7Graph representation of text
- Graph representation preserves (selected)
structural information from document - Relative words positions to find close
co-occurring phrases. - Paragraph, formatting (eg. emphasize), part of
document. - Sample representations
- Words form a directed graph, chained in order as
they appear in each sentence. - Words form a weighted graph, where edge connects
words within certain distance and weight
determines closeness. - Connected terms based on NLP processing or
co-occurrence.
8Graph representations - examples
Schenker
Gamon
9Graph-based categorization
- Categorization based on similarity metrics
Schenker - Isomorphism
- Maximum common subgraph/ minimum common
supergraph - Graph edit distance
- Statistical methods
- Diameter, degree distribution, betwenness
- Comparison of node neighbors
- Distance preservation measure
- Methods
- k-NN most straightforward
- similarity to centroids graph mean and graph
median - term distance to category
10Ontology
- An explicit specification of a
conceptualization. Tom Gruber - Ontology is a data model that represents a set of
concepts within a domain and the relationships
between those concepts. It is used to reason
about the objects within that domain. Wikipedia
11Ontology - example
12Use of ontologies in classification
- Term unification
- Hierarchy of concepts
- Entity recognition and disambiguation
- Strengthening co-occurrence of related entities
- Nearest neighbors
13Ontology-based classification
- Ontology IS the knowledge base and THE
CLASSIFIER no need for training set. - Rich instance base defines known universe.
- Schema with taxonomy describe categorization
structure. - Classification is based on recognized entities in
text and semantic relationships between them. - Categories assigned are based on entities types
and taxonomy embedded in schema.
14OntoCategorization bases
- Probability
- Traditionally, document is classified based on
probabilities that given feature (word, phrase)
belongs to a certain category. - Here the more features belong to a category, the
more probable that document belongs to the
category. - Similarity
- Category is defined as ontology fragment
(entities, classes, structures, etc.) - Similarity of document graph to given ontology
fragment describes closeness to selected category - Connectivity (components)
- Knowledge is based on associations.
- Entities in one category should form a connected
component, as they belong to the same subject.
15Classes and categories
- Classes do not have to be categories
- Classes
- Form taxonomy / partonomy
- Strict, formal requirements
- Membership based on features
- Categories
- Can include other categories, intersect with
them, etc. more set-like approach - Category can be a complex structure of classes,
relationships and instances - Topic of interest that can span multiple,
normally unrelated classes in schema
16Who? What? Where? When? Why?
- WWW What (who)? Where? When?
- These text dimensions are orthogonal (in most
text). - Fairly easy to find place and date/time.
- What / who description of articles topic .
- Ontology classification
- Focus on text core find what and who by
matching entities. - Recognize relationships between entities to
construct an initial document graph. - Graph overlay from ontology on core entities
reveals semantics from background knowledge of
analyzed text. - Why? Hmm
17OntoCategorization system
18Algorithm sketch
- Convert text to thematic graph
- From words to entities (spotting).
- Extract relationships and form triples (NLP).
- Overlay background knowledge.
- Remove unwanted entities (time/place).
- Categorize graph using ontology
- Select thematic component to categorization
(disambiguation and topic set) - Find best category coverage for selected thematic
graph.
19Algorithm sketch more details
- Match phrases in text with entities in ontology
and assign initial weight. - Graph overlay add relationships from ontology
between matched entities. - Mark / remove entities related to dates and
places. - Add extracted relationships (NLP) between
recognized entities. - Propagate entity weight in graph in similar way
as in hubs-authorities algorithm Kleinberg. - Find thematic graph(s) for further analysis
connected component. - Calculate most important entities based on weight
and graph centrality. - Find categories in schema that cover largest part
of thematic component, are lowest in hierarchy
and include most important entities.
20Experiments
- Wikipedia ontology
- Includes around 2,000,000 entries
- Multiple entity names (variations for matching)
- Has rich instance base (articles)
- Internal href, templates and infobox relations
carry semantic connections among entries - Has large schema with categories over 310,00
categories - They DO NOT form a taxonomy, just a graph (even
include cycles)
21Experiments (2)
- Wikipedia 2 RDF
- Created initially by dbpedia.org
- Auer, Lehmann
- Creation of RDF some modifications
- Focus on href, infoboxes and templates
- Special relationships for entities in infoboxes
and templates - Only English version of Wikipedia
- Entity name variations for matching
- Name, short name (no brackets), redirect,
disambiguation, alternate names
22Algorithm details (1)
- Entity name matching
- Entities and relationships are the content of
document they define topic(s). - Ontology defines known entities, literals or
phrases assigned to them and classifications. - Analyzed text must contain some of these entities
to be categorizable otherwise it is outside of
the ontology scope. - Matching assigns spotted phrases to known
literals, and later to entities. - Possible use of stop words and/or stemming.
23Example of entity matching
- Ford Motor Co. is in the process of selling
- Jaguar and Land Rover, according to Ford
- CEO Alan Mulally.
24Algorithm details (2)
- Semantic graph construction
- Add relationships between recognized entities
from ontology, as ontology defines meaningful
(semantic) connections between them. - Add relationships extracted from NLP analysis of
annotated text. - Connected entites enable to perform graph
analysis, connectivity, finding paths, etc. - Date and place elimination
- Dates and places are orthogonal to topic.
- Path connecting entities through place or date is
very little meaningful for document topic.
25Example parse tree and triples
- Ford Motor Co. is in the process of selling
Jaguar and Land Rover, according to Ford CEO Alan
Mulally.
26Example NLP ontology knowledge
- Ford Motor Co. is in the process of selling
Jaguar and Land Rover, according to Ford CEO Alan
Mulally.
named_after
Jaguar (animal)
Jaguar Cars
Chief Executive Officer
parent_company
sells
Ford Motor Company
has_CEO
is_a
sells
CEO_of
parent_company
Land Rover
Alan Mulally
27Algorithm details (3)
- Weight propagation
- Each entity has its initial weight assigned by
strength of phrase matching. - Like in the web, entities are interconnected
influence each other. - We are looking for authority entities
assumption is they are most representative for
topic.
28Algorithm details (4)
- Thematic subgraph in matched graph
- Assumption is that entities associated with the
same or related topics are interconnected in
ontology same as in real life. - Graph component topic-related entites.
- Each document (or document fragment) should treat
about one or two main topics leave only most
important (weight) and largest component(s).
29Thematic graph examples
Chief Executive Officer
Jaguar Cars
Jaguar (animal)
Ford Motor Company
Alan Mulally
Land Rover
Announcement
Sales
News
Business
Newspaper
Buyer
30Algorithm details (5)
- Most important and central entities
- Topic tends to center around few entites that are
either most important (weight) or are most
central in graph. - Also classification of whole subgraph should be a
subset of possible classification of these
entities.
31Algorithm details (6)
- Categorization
- Category is defined as set and/or hierarchy of
classes defined in ontology schema. - Each entity has a hierarchy of assigned
categories. - Best ontology class for graph should
- Cover maximum number of entities in the graph.
- Be on relatively lowest level in hierarchy.
- Be close in hierarchy to classified entity.
- Include most important entities (the more, the
better)
32Entities and categories
Car Manufacturers
Felines
Living people
Off-road wehicles
Ford
Pantherinae
Ford people
Jaguar
Panthera
Ford executives
Jaguar Cars
Alan Mulally
Jaguar (animal)
Ford Motor Company
Land Rover
Chief Executive Officer
33Longer example
- Ford, utility ready to work on plug-in car
Automaker, Southern California Edison to unveil
alliance in response to demand for
energy-efficient vehicles. - DETROIT (Reuters) -- Ford Motor Co. and power
utility Southern California Edison will announce
an unusual alliance Monday aimed at clearing the
way for a new generation of rechargeable electric
cars, the companies said. - Ford (Charts , Fortune 500) Chief Executive Alan
Mulally and Edison International (Charts ,
Fortune 500) Chief Executive John Bryson are
scheduled to meet with reporters at Edison's
headquarters in Rosemead, Calif., the companies
said. - ...
- Led by Toyota Motor Corp's (Charts) Prius, the
current generation of hybrid vehicles uses
batteries to power the vehicle at low speeds and
in to provide assistance during stop-and-go
traffic and hard acceleration, delivering higher
fuel economy. - General Motors Corp. (Charts , Fortune 500) has
already begun work this year to develop its own
plug-in hybrid car, designed to use little or no
gasoline over short distances. The company showed
off a concept version of the Chevrolet Volt in
January at the Detroit Auto show and has awarded
contracts to two battery makers to research
advanced batteries for a possible production
version.
34Longer example
- Ford, utility ready to work on plug-in car
Automaker, Southern California Edison to unveil
alliance in response to demand for
energy-efficient vehicles. - DETROIT (Reuters) -- Ford Motor Co. and power
utility Southern California Edison will announce
an unusual alliance Monday aimed at clearing the
way for a new generation of rechargeable electric
cars, the companies said. - Ford (Charts , Fortune 500) Chief Executive Alan
Mulally and Edison International (Charts ,
Fortune 500) Chief Executive John Bryson are
scheduled to meet with reporters at Edison's
headquarters in Rosemead, Calif., the companies
said. - ...
- Led by Toyota Motor Corp's (Charts) Prius, the
current generation of hybrid vehicles uses
batteries to power the vehicle at low speeds and
in to provide assistance during stop-and-go
traffic and hard acceleration, delivering higher
fuel economy. - General Motors Corp. (Charts , Fortune 500) has
already begun work this year to develop its own
plug-in hybrid car, designed to use little or no
gasoline over short distances. The company showed
off a concept version of the Chevrolet Volt in
January at the Detroit Auto show and has awarded
contracts to two battery makers to research
advanced batteries for a possible production
version.
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36Longer example graph properties
- Initial number of vertexes 205
- Initial number of edges 361
- Largest component 95
- Component for analysis 35
- Central and most important entities
- Hybrid_vehicle Centrality 208, weight
1.516873 - Automobile Centrality 213, weight 1.249790,
- Internal_combustion_engine Centrality 233,
weight 1.069511 - Ford_Motor_Company Centrality 237, weight
1.451533, - Southern_California_Edison Centrality 351,
weight 1.308824
37Longer example categories
- CategoryAutomobiles
- CAT instances lt13gt, (avg. height 2.384615)weight
0.874697 - CategoryAlternative_propulsion
- CAT instances lt4gt, (avg. height 1.250000) weight
0.873287 - CategoryCar_manufacturers
- instances lt3gt (avg. height 1.000000) weight
0.781271 - CategoryVehicles
- CAT instances lt13gt, (avg. height 2.923077)
weight 0.647903 - CategoryTransportation
- CAT instances lt11gt, (avg. Height 3.090909)
weight 0.629714
38Wikipedia categories
- Wikipedia categories DO NOT form a taxonomy
- It is just a directed graph, that contains
cycles. - Not possible to use subsumption for categories.
- Thesaurus-like structure. Voss
- Categories may be very deep and detailed, or very
broad - Hard to pinpoint the cut-off point good for
categorization. - There is no simple mapping between news
categories and categories in Wikipedia.
39Overall performance of initial tests
- Tests against classic BOW statistic classifier
McCallum. - Source articles and categories taken from CNN
total of 7158 documents in 14 categories. - Divided into 50 training / 50 testing split
- Mapping between Wikipedia and CNN categories done
manually by crawling generated Wikipedia schema
(still not really precise)
40Text corpora CNN news
41CNN and Wikipedia
- CNN categories
- Classified by people
- Describe mostly article interest, not necessarily
its content - Frequently described readers interest rather
than true subject. - Hard to match to Wikipedia categories
- Wikipedia categories
- Content-based
- Very detailed and deep
42Categorization results - BOW
43Categorization results BOW on Wikipedia
44Categorization results - Wikipedia
45Summary of work
- Ontology storage and querying
- Brahms RDF/S storage
- Sparqler query language extension with path
queries - For use in Glycomics project
- Prototype of ontology-based categorization
- Partial implementation not all modules included
yet - Use of general-purpose ontology RDF graph
created from English Wikipedia - Initial tests confirm proof of concept
- Published as technical report, submitted to WWW
2008
46Remaining research
- Goal
- Create comprehensive model for ontology-based
categorization. - Create semantic context definition
- Modify and/or create graph similarity measures
that exploit context information
47Current work in progress
- Goal
- Create a system, where user can categorize text
document with given ontology using specified
semantic context. - NLP module for relationship extraction
- Definition of query context
- Extension of SPARQL with context queries
48Proposed work
- Include NLP analysis in creating relationships
between entities - Will help to link entities that do not have
connection in ontology or strengthen this
connection. - Explore categorization to a user-defined context
(collection of instances, classes, structures,
path expressions). - Extend definition of category to include context.
- Experiment with other well-developed ontologies
to categorize more specialized documents - Eg. PubMed
- (optional) Study the applicability of the method
for ontology-based document summarization.
49Published papers
- Maciej Janik, Krys Kochut. "BRAHMS A WorkBench
RDF Store And High Performance Memory System for
Semantic Association Discovery", Fourth
International Semantic Web Conference, ISWC 2005,
Galway, Ireland, 6-10 November 2005 - Krys Kochut, Maciej Janik. "SPARQLeR Extended
Sparql for Semantic Association Discovery",
Fourth European Semantic Web Conference, ESWC
2007, Innsbruck, Austria, 3-7 June 2007 - Matthew Perry, Maciej Janik, Cartic Ramakrishnan,
Conrad Ibanez, Budak Arpinar, Amit Sheth.
"Peer-to-Peer Discovery of Semantic
Associations", Second International Workshop on
Peer-to-Peer Knowledge Management, San Diego, CA,
July 17, 2005 - Maciej Janik, Krys Kochut. "Wikipedia in action
Ontological Knowledge in Text Categorization",
UGA Technical Report No. UGA-CS-TR-07-001,
November 2007 submitted to WWW 2008 - S. Nimmagadda, A. Basu, M. Evenson, J. Han, M.
Janik, R. Narra, K. Nimmagadda, A. Sharma, K.J.
Kochut, J.A. Miller and W. S. York, "GlycoVault
A Bioinformatics Infrastructure for Glycan
Pathway Visualization, Analysis and Modeling,"
Proceedings of the 5th International Conference
on Information Technology New Generations
(ITNG'08), Las Vegas, Nevada (April 2008) to
appear
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