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Presenter: CHANG, SHIH-JIE

Authors: Kevin Meijer, Flavius Frasincar, Frederik Hogenboom

2014.DSS.

A semantic approach for extracting domain taxonomies from text

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Outlines

MotivationObjectivesMethodologyExperimentsConclusionsComments

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Motivation

• Manually creating a taxonomy is difficult and time

consuming process and may not be high quality.

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Objectives

• This paper presents a framework using a semantic

approach for the automatic building of a domain taxonomy,

called Automatic Taxonomy Construction from Text (ATCT).

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Methodology

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Methodology – term filtering

lexical cohesion

domain pertinence

domain consensus

domain score of term tin domain corpus Di

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WSD on text corpora

WSD on existing taxonomies

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Methodology – Concept hierarchy creation

score(pricing | ‘pricing behavior’) = 0.6 + ½*0.4 +1/3*0.3= 0.9 score(trading | ‘pricing behavior’) = 0.7 + ½*0.3 = 0.85

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Implementation WSD result

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Implementation hierarchy creation result

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Experiments

semantic precision

semantic recall

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Experiments – core taxonomy V.S. reference taxonomy

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Experiments – two measurestaxonomic precision

taxonomic recall

global taxonomic precision

global taxonomic recall

taxonomic F-measure

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Experiments

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Experiments

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Conclusions– ATCT framework can be successfully applied to other domains than economics and management.– Our approach works well in capturing the broader–narrower relation between concepts .

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Comments• Advantages

– Define concepts well.• Applications

– Built taxonomies 、 Term extraction and filtering.