LTV: Labeled Topic Vector

Daniel Baumartz, Tolga Uslu, Alexander Mehler


Abstract
In this paper we present LTV, a website and API that generates labeled topic classifications based on the Dewey Decimal Classification (DDC), an international standard for topic classification in libraries. We introduce nnDDC, a largely language-independent natural network-based classifier for DDC, which we optimized using a wide range of linguistic features to achieve an F-score of 87.4%. To show that our approach is language-independent, we evaluate nnDDC using up to 40 different languages. We derive a topic model based on nnDDC, which generates probability distributions over semantic units for any input on sense-, word- and text-level. Unlike related approaches, however, these probabilities are estimated by means of nnDDC so that each dimension of the resulting vector representation is uniquely labeled by a DDC class. In this way, we introduce a neural network-based Classifier-Induced Semantic Space (nnCISS).
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C18-2031
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Proceedings of the 27th International Conference on Computational Linguistics: System Demonstrations
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August
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2018
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Santa Fe, New Mexico
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Dongyan Zhao
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COLING
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Association for Computational Linguistics
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142–145
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https://aclanthology.org/C18-2031
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Daniel Baumartz, Tolga Uslu, and Alexander Mehler. 2018. LTV: Labeled Topic Vector. In Proceedings of the 27th International Conference on Computational Linguistics: System Demonstrations, pages 142–145, Santa Fe, New Mexico. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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