Concept Labeling: Building Text Classifiers with Minimal Supervision

Chenthamarakshan, Vijil; Melville, Prem; Sindhwani, Vikas; Lawrence, Richard D.

doi:10.5591/978-1-57735-516-8/IJCAI11-208

Concept Labeling: Building Text Classifiers with Minimal Supervision

Vijil Chenthamarakshan, Prem Melville, Vikas Sindhwani, Richard D. Lawrence

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Proceedings of the Twenty-Second International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence. Pages 1225-1229.

https://doi.org/10.5591/978-1-57735-516-8/IJCAI11-208

Abstract

The rapid construction of supervised text classification models is becoming a pervasive need across many modern applications. To reduce human-labeling bottlenecks, many new statistical paradigms (e.g., active, semi-supervised, transfer and multi-task learning) have been vigorously pursued in recent literature with varying degrees of empirical success. Concurrently, the emergence of Web 2.0 platforms in the last decade has enabled a world-wide, collaborative human effort to construct a massive ontology of concepts with very rich, detailed and accurate descriptions. In this paper we propose a new framework to extract supervisory information from such ontologies and complement it with a shift in human effort from direct labeling of examples in the domain of interest to the much more efficient identification of concept-class associations. Through empirical studies on text categorization problems using the Wikipedia ontology, we show that this shift allows very high-quality models to be immediately induced at virtually no cost.

Vijil Chenthamarakshan, Prem Melville, Vikas Sindhwani, and Richard D. Lawrence. 2011. Concept Labeling: Building Text Classifiers with Minimal Supervision. In Proceedings of the Twenty-Second International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, IJCAI-11. IJCAI, 1225–1229. https://doi.org/10.5591/978-1-57735-516-8/IJCAI11-208

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