Unsupervised graph-based topic labelling using dbpedia

  • Authors:
  • Ioana Hulpus;Conor Hayes;Marcel Karnstedt;Derek Greene

  • Affiliations:
  • Digital Enterprise Research Institute (DERI), National University of Ireland, Galway, Galway, Ireland;Digital Enterprise Research Institute (DERI), National University of Ireland, Galway, Galway, Ireland;Digital Enterprise Research Institute (DERI), National University of Ireland, Galway, Galway, Ireland;School of Computer Science and Informatics, University College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the sixth ACM international conference on Web search and data mining
  • Year:
  • 2013

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Abstract

Automated topic labelling brings benefits for users aiming at analysing and understanding document collections, as well as for search engines targetting at the linkage between groups of words and their inherent topics. Current approaches to achieve this suffer in quality, but we argue their performances might be improved by setting the focus on the structure in the data. Building upon research for concept disambiguation and linking to DBpedia, we are taking a novel approach to topic labelling by making use of structured data exposed by DBpedia. We start from the hypothesis that words co-occuring in text likely refer to concepts that belong closely together in the DBpedia graph. Using graph centrality measures, we show that we are able to identify the concepts that best represent the topics. We comparatively evaluate our graph-based approach and the standard text-based approach, on topics extracted from three corpora, based on results gathered in a crowd-sourcing experiment. Our research shows that graph-based analysis of DBpedia can achieve better results for topic labelling in terms of both precision and topic coverage.