Classification of short texts by deploying topical annotations

  • Authors:
  • Daniele Vitale;Paolo Ferragina;Ugo Scaiella

  • Affiliations:
  • Dipartimento di Informatica, University of Pisa, Italy;Dipartimento di Informatica, University of Pisa, Italy;Dipartimento di Informatica, University of Pisa, Italy

  • Venue:
  • ECIR'12 Proceedings of the 34th European conference on Advances in Information Retrieval
  • Year:
  • 2012

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Abstract

We propose a novel approach to the classification of short texts based on two factors: the use of Wikipedia-based annotators that have been recently introduced to detect the main topics present in an input text, represented via Wikipedia pages, and the design of a novel classification algorithm that measures the similarity between the input text and each output category by deploying only their annotated topics and the Wikipedia link-structure. Our approach waives the common practice of expanding the feature-space with new dimensions derived either from explicit or from latent semantic analysis. As a consequence it is simple and maintains a compact intelligible representation of the output categories. Our experiments show that it is efficient in construction and query time, accurate as state-of-the-art classifiers (see e.g. Phan et al. WWW '08), and robust with respect to concept drifts and input sources.