Predictive Self-Organizing Networks for Text Categorization

  • Authors:
  • Ah-Hwee Tan

  • Affiliations:
  • -

  • Venue:
  • PAKDD '01 Proceedings of the 5th Pacific-Asia Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining
  • Year:
  • 2001

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Abstract

This paper introduces a class of predictive self-organizing neural networks known as Adaptive Resonance Associative Map (ARAM) for classification of free-text documents. Whereas most statistical approaches to text categorization derive classification knowledge based on training examples alone, ARAM performs supervised learning and integrates user-defined classification knowledge in the form of IF-THEN rules. Through our experiments on the Reuters-21578 news database, we showed that ARAM performed reasonably well in mining categorization knowledge from sparse and high dimensional document feature space. In addition, ARAM predictive accuracy and learning efficiency can be improved by incorporating a set of rules derived from the Reuters category description. The impact of rule insertion is most significant for categories with a small number of relevant documents.