Text Categorization with Semantic Commonsense Knowledge: First Results

  • Authors:
  • Pawel Majewski;Julian Szymański

  • Affiliations:
  • Gdańsk University of Technology, Gdańsk, Poland 80-952;Gdańsk University of Technology, Gdańsk, Poland 80-952

  • Venue:
  • Neural Information Processing
  • Year:
  • 2008

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Abstract

Most text categorization research exploit bag-of-words text representation. However, such representation makes it very hard to capture semantic similarity between text documents that share very little or even no vocabulary. In this paper we present preliminary results obtained with a novel approach that combines well established kernel text classifiers with external contextual commonsense knowledge. We propose a method for computing semantic similarity between words as a result of diffusion process in ConceptNet semantic space. Evaluation on a Reuters dataset show an improvement in precision of classification.