Text categorization from category name via lexical reference

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Abstract

Requiring only category names as user input is a highly attractive, yet hardly explored, setting for text categorization. Earlier bootstrapping results relied on similarity in LSA space, which captures rather coarse contextual similarity. We suggest improving this scheme by identifying concrete references to the category name’s meaning, obtaining a special variant of lexical expansion.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationNAACL-HLT 2009 - Human Language Technologies
Subtitle of host publication2009 Annual Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Short Papers
EditorsMari Ostendorf, Michael Collins, Shri Narayanan, Douglas W. Oard, Lucy Vanderwende
PublisherAssociation for Computational Linguistics (ACL)
Pages33-36
Number of pages4
ISBN (Electronic)9781932432428
StatePublished - 2009
Event2009 Annual Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies, NAACL-HLT 2009 - Boulder, United States
Duration: 31 May 20095 Jun 2009

Publication series

NameNAACL-HLT 2009 - Human Language Technologies: 2009 Annual Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Short Papers

Conference

Conference2009 Annual Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies, NAACL-HLT 2009
Country/TerritoryUnited States
CityBoulder
Period31/05/095/06/09

Bibliographical note

Publisher Copyright:
© 2009 Association for Computational Linguistics

Funding

The authors would like to thank Carlo Strapparava and Alfio Gliozzo for valuable discussions. This work was partially supported by the NEGEV project (www.negev-initiative.org).

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