Semantic Kernels for Text Classification Based on Topological Measures of Feature Similarity

  • Authors:
  • Stephan Bloehdorn;Roberto Basili;Marco Cammisa;Alessandro Moschitti

  • Affiliations:
  • University of Karlsruhe, Germany;University of Rome 'Tor Vergata', Italy;University of Rome 'Tor Vergata', Italy;University of Rome 'Tor Vergata', Italy

  • Venue:
  • ICDM '06 Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Data Mining
  • Year:
  • 2006

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Abstract

In this paper we propose a new approach to the design of semantic smoothing kernels for text classification. These kernels implicitly encode a superconcept expansion in a semantic network using well-known measures of term similarity. The experimental evaluation on two different datasets indicates that our approach consistently improves performance in situations of little training data and data sparseness.