Discovering relationships among categories using misclassification information

  • Authors:
  • Saket S. R. Mengle;Nazli Goharian;Alana Platt

  • Affiliations:
  • Illinois Institute of Technology Chicago, Illinois;Illinois Institute of Technology Chicago, Illinois;Illinois Institute of Technology Chicago, Illinois

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the 2008 ACM symposium on Applied computing
  • Year:
  • 2008

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Abstract

Knowledge of relationships among categories is of the interest in different domains such as text classification, content analysis, and text mining. We propose and evaluate approaches to effectively identify relationships among document categories. Our proposed novel method capitalizes on the misclassification results of a text classifier to identify potential relationships among categories. We demonstrate that our system detects such relationships, even those relationships that assessors failed to identify in manual evaluation. Furthermore, we favorably compare the effectiveness of our methods with the state of art method and demonstrate a significant improvement in precision (34%) and recall (5%).