Title
Simple and efficient classification scheme based on specific vocabulary
Abstract
Assuming a binomial distribution for word occurrence, we propose computing a standardized Z score to define the specific vocabulary of a subset compared to that of the entire corpus. This approach is applied to weight terms (character n-gram, word, stem, lemma or sequence of them) which characterize a document. We then show how these Z score values can be used to derive a simple and efficient categorization scheme. To evaluate this proposition and demonstrate its effectiveness, we develop two experiments. First, the system must categorize speeches given by B. Obama as being either electoral or presidential speech. In a second experiment, sentences are extracted from these speeches and then categorized under the headings electoral or presidential. Based on these evaluations, the proposed classification scheme tends to perform better than a support vector machine model for both experiments, on the one hand, and on the other, shows a better performance level than a Naïve Bayes classifier on the first test and a slightly lower performance on the second (10-fold cross validation).
Year
DOI
Venue
2012
10.1007/s10287-012-0149-z
Comput. Manag. Science
Keywords
Field
DocType
Statistics in lexical analysis,Corpus linguistics,Text categorization,Machine learning,Natural language processing (NLP)
Categorization,Binomial distribution,Naive Bayes classifier,Computer science,Support vector machine,Standard score,Speech recognition,Natural language processing,Artificial intelligence,Cross-validation,Vocabulary,Lemma (mathematics)
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
9
3
1619-697X
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
1
0.36
14
Authors
2
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Jacques Savoy11601169.85
olena zubaryeva222.08