A Comparative Study on Text Representation Models for Topic Detection in Arabic



Título del documento: A Comparative Study on Text Representation Models for Topic Detection in Arabic
Revista: Computación y sistemas
Base de datos:
Número de sistema: 000560433
ISSN: 1405-5546
Autores: 1
2
Instituciones: 1Hassan II University, Faculty of Sciences Ain Chock, Mohammedia, Casablanca. Marruecos
2Mohammed I University, Sciences Faculty, Oujda. Marruecos
Año:
Periodo: Jul-Sep
Volumen: 23
Número: 3
Paginación: 683-691
País: México
Idioma: Inglés
Tipo de documento: Artículo
Resumen en inglés Topic Detection (TD) plays a major role in Natural Language Processing (NLP). Its applications range from Question Answering to Speech Recognition. In order to correctly detect document's topic, we shall first proceed with a text representation phase to transform the electronic documents contents into an efficiently software handled form. Significant efforts have been deployed to construct effective text representation models, mainly for English documents. In this paper, we realize a comparative study to investigate the impact of using stems, multi-word terms and named entities as text representation models on Topic Detection for Arabic unvowelized documents. Our experiments indicate that using named entities as text representation model is the most effective approach for Arabic Topic Detection. The performances of the two other approaches are heavily dependent on the considered topic. In order to enhance the Topic Detection results, we use combined vocabulary vectors based on stems and named entities (respectively stems and multi-word terms) association to model topics more accurately. This approach effectiveness has been endorsed by the enhancement of the system performances.
Disciplinas: Ciencias de la computación
Palabras clave: Inteligencia artificial
Keyword: Natural language processing,
Topic detection,
Text representation,
Multi-word terms,
Named entities,
Artificial intelligence
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