under the guidance of dr. r. bhaskaran head of department - school of mathematics

VrittiCognitive Search – Discovering concepts and trends

in large body of text

MS Computer Science Project, Mid term presentation

Under the guidance ofDr. R. Bhaskaran

Head of Department - School of MathematicsMadurai Kamaraj University, Madurai

S Gopi092504174Course: MS (Computer Science)

MS Computer Science, Manipal University 1

Introduction Literature Survey Methodology and Progress Proposed Future work and timeline

Table of Contents


Objective Motivation Goal

Introduction


Develop a system named Vritti for extracting concepts and trends from large body of text.

Vritti follows “open literature discovery process” to mine through documents to extract meaningful information buried inside.

Augment a range of text mining/ information retrieval algorithms to the existing keyword search framework

Objective


We define concept as a word or a phrase which describes a meaningful subject within a particular field.

Vritti discovers concepts within the context of the corpus under consideration

Trends are defined as recurring concepts in multiple documents inside the corpus

Concepts and Trends


The first step of text exploration is search, followed by discovering concepts and their associated relationships.

Equipped with these concepts which present a high level view of the underlying documents, the users should be able to search/infer information from large body of text with ease.

Vritti Text Exploration


Subsumption - A learner, supported by an appropriate environment, shall be able to attach a new concept to those existent inside his/her cognitive structure.

Vritti aims to apply the same for searching and text exploration. Make search a more natural phenomenon by enhancing the search experience of the information seeker.

Motivation


Joseph D. Novak & Alberto J. CañasFlorida Institute for Human and Machine CognitionTechnical Report IHMC CmapTools 2006-01 Rev 2008-01

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Increased search effectiveness, by presenting the users with concepts; in addition to documents matching the given query.

Concepts will be derived from the search results.

Allow the users to interact between the search results and discovered concepts in the form of query expansion or modification

Goal


Text exploration◦ Literature Based Discovery (LBD)◦ Berry picking

IR Models and Weighting Schemes◦ Vector space models◦ Term weighting schemes◦ Search Ranking Schemes

Concept Definition and Discovery◦ Word space models◦ Random Projections◦ Document Clustering

Lingo Non Negative Matrix Factorization

◦ Scalar Clustering

Literature Survey


Concept discovery in text was hugely popularized by the work of Dr Swanson in trying to identify the relationship between fish oil and Reynaud’s syndrome.

Focus of Dr. Swanson’ work was to identify concepts and their relationship in bibliographic databases. His technique is known as Literature Based Discovery (LBD) and he defines it as a process of finding complementary structures in disjoint science literature.

Literature Based Discovery (LBD)

Janneck, M. C. (2006). Recent Advances in Literature Based Discovery. Journal of theAmerican Society for Information Science and Technology, JASIST.MS Computer Science, Manipal

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LBD Open discovery process


Why is it necessary for the searcher to find a way to represent the information need in a query, understandable by the system?

Why not the system make it possible for the searchers to express the need directly as they would ordinarily, instead of in an artificial query representation for the system consumption.

Berry Picking

J.Bates, M. (1989). The design of browsing and berrypicking techniques for the online searchinterface [Quick Edit] . Online Information Retrieval, 407-424.

Berry picking challenges current keyword search methodology in four areas

1. Nature of the query2. Nature of the overall search process3. Range of search techniques used4. Information domain or territory where the search is conducted


Traditional Search vs. Berry Picking


Information Retrieval Model Central premise of any information retrieval

system is to identify relevant and irrelevant documents for a given query.

They perform this relevance using a ranking algorithm. Ranking algorithms use index terms. An index term is simply a word whose semantics helps in remembering the document’s main theme.

IR Models and Weighting Schemes

Ricardo Baeza Yates, B. R. (1999). Modern Information Retrieval. Association forComputing Machinery Inc (ACM).


In vector space model (Yang, 1975) every document represented by a multidimensional vector.

Each component of the vector is a particular keyword in the document.

The value of the component depends on the degree of relationship between the term and the underlying document. Term weighting schemes decide the relationship between the term and the document.

Vector cosine similarity decides document query or document- document similarity

Vector Space Model

Yang, G. A. (1975, Nov). A vector space model for automatic indexing. Communications ofthe ACM.


Several mathematical schemes based on the type of IR models have been developed to identify index terms.◦ Spark Jones developed IDF, the Inverse document

frequency weighting.◦ Probabilistic IDF, called IDFP was developed by

Robertson. ◦ All the above mentioned weighting schemes

decide the weight of a term based on its presence in the document

IR Model Math Schemes

Robertson, S. (2004). Understanding Inverse Document Frequency: On theoriticalArguments of IDF. Journal of Documentation, 503-520.K, S. J. (1972). A statisitical interpretation of term specificity and its application in retrieval.Journal of Documentation, 11-21.MS Computer Science, Manipal

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Binary: Simplest case, the association is binary: aij=1 when keyword i occurs in document j, aij =0 otherwise.

Term frequency: aij = tfij, where tfij denotes how many times term i occurs in document j.

TF-IDF: aij = tfij . log(N/dfi), where dfi denotes the number of documents in which term i appears and N represents the total number of documents in the collection.

Term Weighting


Introduction to information retrieval.Christopher D Manning, Prabhakar Raghavan, Hinrich Schutze, Cambridge University Press

Combination of the Vector Space Model Boolean model to determine how relevant a given Document is to a User's query.

Boolean model to first narrow down the documents that need to be scored based on the use of Boolean logic in the Query specification.

More times a query term appears in a document relative to the number of times the term appears in all the documents in the collection, the more relevant that document is to the query.

The score of query q for document d correlates to the cosine-distance or dot-product between document and query vectors in a Vector Space Model (VSM). A document whose vector is closer to the query vector in that model is scored higher.

Search Ranking Schemes


Apache Lucene, Search Ranking Scheme

Concept is a word or a phrase which describes a meaningful subject within a particular field.

Principal Orthogonal vectors in VSM are good concept candidates

Non Poisson distributed word or co-occurring words are good concept candidates.

Concept Definition and Discovery

Srinivasan, P. (1992). Thesaurus Construction. In W. F. Baeza-Yates, Information Retrieval:Data Structures & Algorithm (pp. 161-218). Englewood Cliffs: Printice Hall.


VSM treat words as indicator of contents, there is no exact matching from words to concepts.

In word space model, a high dimensional vector space is produced by collecting the data in a co-occurrence matrix F, such that each row Fw represents a unique word w and each column Fc represents a context c, typically a multi word segment such as a document or word. ◦ Latent Semantic Analysis (LSA) is an example of a word

space model that uses document based co-occurrence ◦ Hyperspace analogue to Language (HAL) is an example of

a model that uses word based co-occurrences.

Word Space Models

Asoh, L. S. (2001). Computing with Large Random Patterns.MS Computer Science, Manipal

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Accumulate context vectors based on the occurrence of words in context.

Two step operation◦ First, each context (e.g. each document or each word) in the data is

assigned a unique and randomly generated representation called an index vector. These index vectors are sparse, high-dimensional and ternary, that is their dimensionality is on the order of thousands, and that they consist of a small number of randomly distributed +1s and -1s, with the rest of the elements of the vector set to 0.

◦ Then, context vectors are produced by scanning through the text, and each time a word occurs in a context, that context’s d-dimensional index vector is added to the context vector for the word in question. Words are thus represented by d-dimensional context vectors that are effectively the sum of the words’ context.

Random Projections

Kanerva.P. (1988). Sparse Distributed Memory. The MIT Press.Sahlgren, M. (2005). An Introduction to Random Indexing. Methods and Applications of Semantic Indexing Workshop at the 7th International Conference on Terminology and Knowledge Engineering, TKE 2005.


Every word / document is represented as a vector, which is a sum of all the corresponding context vectors.

Searching for a word, can be performed at a context / concept level.

Incremental method, context vectors can be used for similarity even after a few examples.

Dimensionality d, does not change. New examples, does not change d, hence method is scalable for large data sets.


Random Projections

Documents tend to cluster around underlying concepts they represent

Clustering search results is a way of discovering concepts in a document corpus

Vritti implements two document clustering algorithms◦ Lingo◦ Non Negative Matrix Factorization

Document Clustering



Input Text

Extract Frequent Phrases

Appears a specific number of times

Not cross sentence boundary

Neither begin or end with a stop word

Term document Matrix of index term, TFID weighting

Singular Value DecompositionUSVt, take k singular values

For every freq phrase, a col vector is made over term

space

Terms vs Freq phrase matrixAbstract concepts vs terms

matrix

Concepts vs Freq phrase matrix

Apply VSM to find documents matching Freq phrase for

clustering

Lingo Algorithm

Weiss, S. O. (2005). A Concept-Driven Algorithm for Clustering Search Results. IEEEIntelligent Systems.

Lingo combines common phrase discovery and Latent semantic indexing to separate documents into meaningful groups

Unsupervised learning algorithms such as principal-component analysis and vector quantization can be understood as factorizing a data matrix subject to different constraints. Depending upon the constraints utilized, the resulting factors can be shown to have very different representational properties.

In Vritti, we try to leverage this idea to factorize a term document matrix, to find the underlying semantic representation. Similar to SVD, NMF tries to find orthogonal representations which can be a good candidate for concepts.

NMF Clustering



Scalar Clustering1. From input text, create a term document matrix , A2. Multiply A with transpose (A) to get term - term matrix, B3. Computer Jaccard’s Coefficient for each entry in B, P(AUB)/P(A)

+P(B)-P(A ^ B) as C4. Make C unit normal and Mutliply C and transpose (C) to get

cosine distance, the new matrix is D5. Matrix D is a term term matrix, having a Analogous score for

each term and its associated term.

Scalar clustering will be used to find analogous words to every word.

1. Literature Survey2. Data Preparation3. Algorithm Selection and Validation4. System Use Cases / Story Boards5. User Interface Design6. High Level System Design7. System Build and Unit Testing8. System testing9. Documentation and Final write up

Methodology and Progress

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Data Source◦ For building and testing Vritti we will use National

Science Foundation (NSF) Research award abstracts 1990-2003 data set This dataset contains,129,000 abstracts describing NSF awards for basic research.

Index Creation◦ Ingested data will be stored as inverted indices

for faster search performance.◦ Apache Lucene will be used for storing the

inverted index.

2. Data Preparation


Inverted index data dictionary


Random Projection will be implemented using the semantic vector package, a project by University of Pittsburgh office of technology management.

Word statistics will be stored in an in memory database, called Redis.

2. Data Preparation


Term Weighting – TFIDF Search Ranking – VSM and Boolean Model Concept Extraction

◦ Words ranked by IDF◦ Words not following a Poisson distribution◦ Word co-occurrence pattern for key phrase extraction◦ First order, second order and third order word

associations◦ Scalar clustering for word analogue extractions◦ Random projection index vectors for concept searching◦ Lingo document clustering◦ NMF Clustering

3. Algorithm Selection and Validation


Story board 1 – Data Loading◦ Users can load documents, pop 3 account or an

URL. Vritti will create inverted index, random projections and word statistics of the corpus

Story board 2 – High Level view of corpus◦ Keyword and Key phrase display◦ For ever keyword and key phrase, associated

words till third level of association will be displayed

◦ The user can start a concept search or a keyword search based on these keywords.

4. System Use Cases and Story Boards


Story Board 3- Search◦ Search displays top N matching documents ◦ For each search, the top N words which distinguishes the

search result from the rest of the corpus will be displayed back. Associations and Analogues of these words can be viewed.

◦ Based on these words the user can refine his search query and do the search. Vritti will append the selected keywords to the search string.

Story Board 4- Search Result Clustering◦ Cluster the search result, user can either select Lingo or

NMF clustering algorithm◦ Every cluster will be labeled with a theme, extracted from

the documents under the cluster.◦ Association and Analogue for these cluster labels can be

found◦ User can start searching by modifying their query based

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5. User Interface Design


VrittiMining concepts from largeBody of text

Start Setup SearchAnalyze Themes



1. Select Data Source1. Directory / File2. URL3. POP3

2. Stop words3. Advanced Parameters



Top N Phrases

Top N words Associated Words Analogue



Search

Search result displayed here



Select Algorithm

Themes discovered as displayed here

For a selected themes, the associated themes and strength of association are displayed here


6 High Level Design


Implementation Overview


Algorithm design and validation ◦ The algorithms listed in the technical and literature

survey section will be implemented and validated against the data source.

System building and testing◦ As part of this task, Vritti system will be developed in

Java, using spring framework. Apache Lucene will be used for inverted index. The front end will be created in HTML5/JavaScript. Individual components of Vritti will be tested and unit test classes for the same will be written and documented. Code documentation in the form of API Help will be generated either using JavaDocs or doxygen

Documentation and Final write up

Future Proposed Work (3 Months)


CRM – Analyze customer responses Ticketing systems – Mining for finding frequently occurring problems / Themes Stock Exchange Trade Chats – Find suspecting transactions Extending to Social Network applications – Understanding discussions among members


Vritti Applications

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