Topic identification using Wikipedia graph centrality

  • Authors:
  • Kino Coursey;Rada Mihalcea

  • Affiliations:
  • University of North Texas and Daxtron Laboratories, Inc.;University of North Texas

  • Venue:
  • NAACL-Short '09 Proceedings of Human Language Technologies: The 2009 Annual Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Companion Volume: Short Papers
  • Year:
  • 2009

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Abstract

This paper presents a method for automatic topic identification using a graph-centrality algorithm applied to an encyclopedic graph derived from Wikipedia. When tested on a data set with manually assigned topics, the system is found to significantly improve over a simpler baseline that does not make use of the external encyclopedic knowledge.