TEXT CLASSIFICATION THROUGH TIME - Efficient Label Propagation in Time-Based Graphs

Shumeet Baluja, Deepak Ravichandran, D. Sivakumar

2009

Abstract

One of the fundamental assumptions for machine-learning based text classification systems is that the underlying distribution from which the set of labeled-text is drawn is identical to the distribution from which the text-to-be-labeled is drawn. However, in live news aggregation sites, this assumption is rarely correct. Instead, the events and topics discussed in news stories dramatically change over time. Rather than ignoring this phenomenon, we attempt to explicitly model the transitions of news stories and classifications over time to label stories that may be acquired months after the initial examples are labeled. We test our system, based on efficiently propagating labels in time-based graphs, with recently published news stories collected over an eighty day period. Experiments presented in this paper include the use of training labels from each story within the first several days of gathering stories, to using a single story as a label.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Baluja S., Ravichandran D. and Sivakumar D. (2009). TEXT CLASSIFICATION THROUGH TIME - Efficient Label Propagation in Time-Based Graphs . In Proceedings of the International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Information Retrieval - Volume 1: KDIR, (IC3K 2009) ISBN 978-989-674-011-5, pages 174-182. DOI: 10.5220/0002303001740182

in Bibtex Style

@conference{kdir09,
author={Shumeet Baluja and Deepak Ravichandran and D. Sivakumar},
title={TEXT CLASSIFICATION THROUGH TIME - Efficient Label Propagation in Time-Based Graphs},
booktitle={Proceedings of the International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Information Retrieval - Volume 1: KDIR, (IC3K 2009)},
year={2009},
pages={174-182},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0002303001740182},
isbn={978-989-674-011-5},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Information Retrieval - Volume 1: KDIR, (IC3K 2009)
TI - TEXT CLASSIFICATION THROUGH TIME - Efficient Label Propagation in Time-Based Graphs
SN - 978-989-674-011-5
AU - Baluja S.
AU - Ravichandran D.
AU - Sivakumar D.
PY - 2009
SP - 174
EP - 182
DO - 10.5220/0002303001740182