Semi-supervised topic classification for low resource languages

In this paper, we present a novel methodology for rapidly developing a topic-based document classification system for a language that has limited resources. Our approach, a hybrid one, combines supervised and unsupervised topic classification techniques. Given that access to native speakers is fairl...

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Published in:2008 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing pp. 5093 - 5096
Main Authors: Daben Liu, McVeety, S., Prasad, R., Natarajan, P.
Format: Conference Proceeding
Language:English
Published: IEEE 01.03.2008
Subjects:
Broadcasting
Hidden Markov Model
Hidden Markov models
Humans
Internet
Malay
Natural languages
off-topic rejection
Runtime
Search engines
Testing
topic clustering
Topology
unsupervised topic discovery
Web sites
ISBN:9781424414833, 1424414830
ISSN:1520-6149
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Summary:In this paper, we present a novel methodology for rapidly developing a topic-based document classification system for a language that has limited resources. Our approach, a hybrid one, combines supervised and unsupervised topic classification techniques. Given that access to native speakers is fairly limited for low resource languages, our approach requires annotating only a few broad "root" topics in the corpus. Next, unsupervised topic discovery (UTD) technique is used to automatically determine finer topics within the root topics. Lastly, we use the recently developed unsupervised topic clustering technique to organize the corpus into a hierarchical structure that enables browsing documents at multiple levels of granularity. Recognizing the need for reducing false alarms during runtime, we describe rejection techniques for discarding off-topic documents.
ISBN:9781424414833
1424414830
ISSN:1520-6149
DOI:10.1109/ICASSP.2008.4518804