Temporal feature modification for retrospective categorization Export

@inproceedings{Liebscher05, abstract = {We show that the intelligent use of one small piece of contextual information--a document's publication date--can improve the performance of classifiers trained on a text categorization task. We focus on academic research documents, where the date of publication undoubtedly has an effect on an author's choice of words. To exploit this contextual feature, we propose the technique of temporal feature modification , which takes various sources of lexical change into account, including changes in term frequency, associative strength between terms and categories, and dynamic categorization systems. We present results of classification experiments using both full text papers and abstracts of conference proceedings, showing improved classification accuracy across the whole collection, with performance increases of greater than 40\% when temporal features are exploited. The technique is fast, classifier-independent, and works well even when making only a few modifications.}, address = {Morristown, NJ, USA}, author = {Liebscher, Robert and Belew, Richard K.}, booktitle = {FeatureEng '05: Proceedings of the ACL Workshop on Feature Engineering for Machine Learning in Natural Language Processing}, citeulike-article-id = {5938800}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1610234}, keywords = {clustering, linguistics, nlp, related, temporal}, location = {Ann Arbor, Michigan}, pages = {17--23}, posted-at = {2009-10-14 11:22:31}, priority = {2}, publisher = {Association for Computational Linguistics}, title = {Temporal feature modification for retrospective categorization}, url = {http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1610234}, year = {2005} }

TY - CONF ID - Liebscher05 L3 - citeulike-article-id:5938800 N2 - We show that the intelligent use of one small piece of contextual information--a document's publication date--can improve the performance of classifiers trained on a text categorization task. We focus on academic research documents, where the date of publication undoubtedly has an effect on an author's choice of words. To exploit this contextual feature, we propose the technique of temporal feature modification , which takes various sources of lexical change into account, including changes in term frequency, associative strength between terms and categories, and dynamic categorization systems. We present results of classification experiments using both full text papers and abstracts of conference proceedings, showing improved classification accuracy across the whole collection, with performance increases of greater than 40% when temporal features are exploited. The technique is fast, classifier-independent, and works well even when making only a few modifications. CY - Ann Arbor, Michigan AD - Morristown, NJ, USA EP - 23 TI - Temporal feature modification for retrospective categorization PB - Association for Computational Linguistics T2 - FeatureEng '05: Proceedings of the ACL Workshop on Feature Engineering for Machine Learning in Natural Language Processing SP - 17 KW - clustering KW - linguistics KW - nlp KW - related KW - temporal AU - Liebscher, Robert AU - Belew, Richard PY - 2005/// UR - http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1610234 ER -