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Record W2565143233 · doi:10.82308/24058

Text classification using a hidden Markov model

2005· article· en· W2565143233 on OpenAlexaff
Kwan Yi

Bibliographic record

VenueOpen MIND · 2005
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldComputer Science
TopicText and Document Classification Technologies
Canadian institutionsMcGill University
Fundersnot available
KeywordsHidden Markov modelComputer scienceArtificial intelligenceCategorizationNatural language processingNaive Bayes classifierTest setMachine learningBayesian probabilityPattern recognition (psychology)Data miningSupport vector machine

Abstract

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Text categorization (TC) is the task of automatically categorizing textual digital documents into pre-set categories by analyzing their contents. The purpose of this study is to develop an effective TC model to resolve the difficulty of automatic classification. In this study, two primary goals are intended. First, a Hidden Markov Model (HAM is proposed as a relatively new method for text categorization. HMM has been applied to a wide range of applications in text processing such as text segmentation and event tracking, information retrieval, and information extraction. Few, however, have applied HMM to TC. Second, the Library of Congress Classification (LCC) is adopted as a classification scheme for the HMM-based TC model for categorizing digital documents. LCC has been used only in a handful of experiments for the purpose of automatic classification. In the proposed framework, a general prototype for an HMM-based TC model is designed, and an experimental model based on the prototype is implemented so as to categorize digitalized documents into LCC. A sample of abstracts from the ProQuest Digital Dissertations database is used for the test-base. Dissertation abstracts, which are pre-classified by professional librarians, form an ideal test-base for evaluating the proposed model of automatic TC. For comparative purposes, a Naive Bayesian model, which has been extensively used in TC applications, is also implemented. Our experimental results show that the performance of our model surpasses that of the Naive Bayesian model as measured by comparing the automatic classification of abstracts to the manual classification performed by professionals.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.001
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.005
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Simulation or modeling · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.012
Threshold uncertainty score0.025

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0010.005
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0010.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0010.001
Bibliometrics0.0010.001
Science and technology studies0.0010.000
Scholarly communication0.0010.002
Open science0.0010.001
Research integrity0.0010.001
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0020.002

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.107
GPT teacher head0.342
Teacher spread0.235 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designSimulation or modeling
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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