Text Classification Approach Research Articles

FLCMC: Federated Learning Approach for Chinese Medicinal Text Classification.

Addressing the privacy protection and data sharing issues in Chinese medical texts, this paper introduces a federated learning approach named FLCMC for Chinese medical text classification. The paper first discusses the data heterogeneity issue in federated language modeling. Then, it proposes two perturbed federated learning algorithms, FedPA and FedPAP, based on the self-attention mechanism. In these algorithms, the self-attention mechanism is incorporated within the model aggregation module, while a perturbation term, which measures the differences between the client and the server, is added to the local update module along with a customized PAdam optimizer. Secondly, to enable a fair comparison of algorithms' performance, existing federated algorithms are improved by integrating a customized Adam optimizer. Through experiments, this paper first conducts experimental analyses on hyperparameters, data heterogeneity, and validity on synthetic datasets, which proves that the proposed federated learning algorithm has significant advantages in classification performance and convergence stability when dealing with heterogeneous data. Then, the algorithm is applied to Chinese medical text datasets to verify its effectiveness on real datasets. The comparative analysis of algorithm performance and communication efficiency shows that the algorithm exhibits strong generalization ability on deep learning models for Chinese medical texts. As for the synthetic dataset, upon comparing with comparison algorithms FedAvg, FedProx, FedAtt, and their improved versions, the experimental results show that for data with general heterogeneity, both FedPA and FedPAP show significantly more accurate and stable convergence behavior. On the real Chinese medical dataset of doctor-patient conversations, IMCS-V2, with logistic regression and long short-term memory network as training models, the experiment results show that in comparison to the above three comparison algorithms and their improved versions, FedPA and FedPAP both possess the best accuracy performance and display significantly more stable and accurate convergence behavior, proving that the method in this paper has better classification effects for Chinese medical texts.

A Hybrid Ensemble Approach for Greek Text Classification Based on Multilingual Models

The present study explores the field of text classification in the Greek language. A novel ensemble classification scheme based on generated embeddings from Greek text made by the multilingual capabilities of the E5 model is presented. Our approach incorporates partial transfer learning by using pre-trained models to extract embeddings, enabling the evaluation of classical classifiers on Greek data. Additionally, we enhance the predictive capability while maintaining the costs low by employing a soft voting combination scheme that exploits the strengths of XGBoost, K-nearest neighbors, and logistic regression. This method significantly improves all classification metrics, demonstrating the superiority of ensemble techniques in handling the complexity of Greek textual data. Our study contributes to the field of natural language processing by proposing an effective ensemble framework for the categorization of Greek texts, leveraging the advantages of both traditional and modern machine learning techniques. This framework has the potential to be applied to other less-resourced languages, thereby broadening the impact of our research beyond Greek language processing.

Exploring Recent NLP Advances for Tamil: Word Vectors and Hybrid Deep Learning Architectures

The advancements of deep learning methods and the availability of large corpora and data sets have led to an exponential increase in the performance of Natural Language Processing (NLP) methods resulting in successful NLP applications for various day-to-day tasks such as Language translation, Voice to text, Grammar checking, Sentiment analysis, etc. These advancements enabled the well-resourced languages to adapt themselves to the digital era while the gap for the low-resource languages widened. This research work explores the suitability of the recent advancements in NLP for Tamil, a low-resource language spoken mainly in South India, Sri Lanka, and Malaysia. From the literature survey, it has been found that there is a lack of comprehensive study on the effect of the recent advancements of NLP for the Tamil text. To fill this gap, this research work analysed the performance of deep learning based text representation and classification approaches namely word embedding, Convolutional Neural Network (CNN), and Recurrent Neural Network (RNN) for Tamil text classification tasks. Different dimensional pretrained word2Vec and FastText word vectors were built for Tamil and their effectiveness on Text classification was evaluated. The study found that the pre-trained 300- dimensional FastText word vector showed better performance than other pre-trained word vectors for Tamil text classification. Further, in this study, four simple hybrid CNN and Bi-GRU models were proposed for Tamil text classification and their performances were evaluated. The study found that hybrid CNN and Bi-GRU models perform better compared to the classical machine learning models, individual CNN and RNN models, and the Multilingual BERT model. These results confirm that the jointly learned embeddings with different deep learning architectures like CNN and RNN can achieve remarkable results for Tamil text classification, thus ensuring that the deep learning approaches can be successful for NLP on Tamil text.

HGATT_LR: transforming review text classification with hypergraphs attention layer and logistic regression

Text classification plays a major role in research such as sentiment analysis, opinion mining, and customer feedback analysis. Text classification using hypergraph algorithms is effective in capturing the intricate relationships between words and phrases in documents. The method entails text preprocessing, keyword extraction, feature selection, text classification, and performance metric evaluation. Here, we proposed a Hypergraph Attention Layer with Logistic Regression (HGATT_LR) for text classification in the Amazon review data set. The essential keywords are extracted by utilizing the Latent Dirichlet Allocation (LDA) technique. To build a hypergraph attention layer, feature selection based on node-level and edge-level attention is assessed. The resultant features are passed as an input of Logistic regression for text classification. Through a comparison analysis of different text classifiers on the Amazon data set, the performance metrics are assessed. Text classification using hypergraph Attention Network has been shown to achieve 88% accuracy which is better compared to other state-of-the-art algorithms. The proposed model is scalable and may be easily enhanced with more training data. The solution highlights the utility of hypergraph approaches for text classification as well as their applicability to real-world datasets with complicated interactions between text parts. This type of analysis will empower the business people will improve the quality of the product.

FEW questions, many answers: using machine learning to assess how students connect food–energy–water (FEW) concepts

There is growing support and interest in postsecondary interdisciplinary environmental education, which integrates concepts and disciplines in addition to providing varied perspectives. There is a need to assess student learning in these programs as well as rigorous evaluation of educational practices, especially of complex synthesis concepts. This work tests a text classification machine learning model as a tool to assess student systems thinking capabilities using two questions anchored by the Food-Energy-Water (FEW) Nexus phenomena by answering two questions (1) Can machine learning models be used to identify instructor-determined important concepts in student responses? (2) What do college students know about the interconnections between food, energy, and water, and how have students assimilated systems thinking into their constructed responses about FEW? Reported here is a broad range of model performances across 26 text classification models associated with two different assessment items, with model accuracy ranging from 0.755 to 0.992. Expert-like responses were infrequent in our dataset compared to responses providing simpler, incomplete explanations of the systems presented in the question. For those students moving from describing individual effects to multiple effects, their reasoning about the mechanism behind the system indicates advanced systems thinking ability. Specifically, students exhibit higher expertise in explaining changing water usage than discussing trade-offs for such changing usage. This research represents one of the first attempts to assess the links between foundational, discipline-specific concepts and systems thinking ability. These text classification approaches to scoring student FEW Nexus Constructed Responses (CR) indicate how these approaches can be used, in addition to several future research priorities for interdisciplinary, practice-based education research. Development of further complex question items using machine learning would allow evaluation of the relationship between foundational concept understanding and integration of those concepts as well as a more nuanced understanding of student comprehension of complex interdisciplinary concepts.

From outputs to insights: a survey of rationalization approaches for explainable text classification.

Deep learning models have achieved state-of-the-art performance for text classification in the last two decades. However, this has come at the expense of models becoming less understandable, limiting their application scope in high-stakes domains. The increased interest in explainability has resulted in many proposed forms of explanation. Nevertheless, recent studies have shown that rationales, or language explanations, are more intuitive and human-understandable, especially for non-technical stakeholders. This survey provides an overview of the progress the community has achieved thus far in rationalization approaches for text classification. We first describe and compare techniques for producing extractive and abstractive rationales. Next, we present various rationale-annotated data sets that facilitate the training and evaluation of rationalization models. Then, we detail proxy-based and human-grounded metrics to evaluate machine-generated rationales. Finally, we outline current challenges and encourage directions for future work.

Artificial Intelligence-Based Co-Facilitator (AICF) for Detecting and Monitoring Group Cohesion Outcomes in Web-Based Cancer Support Groups: Single-Arm Trial Study.

Commonly offered as supportive care, therapist-led online support groups (OSGs) are a cost-effective way to provide support to individuals affected by cancer. One important indicator of a successful OSG session is group cohesion; however, monitoring group cohesion can be challenging due to the lack of nonverbal cues and in-person interactions in text-based OSGs. The Artificial Intelligence-based Co-Facilitator (AICF) was designed to contextually identify therapeutic outcomes from conversations and produce real-time analytics. The aim of this study was to develop a method to train and evaluate AICF's capacity to monitor group cohesion. AICF used a text classification approach to extract the mentions of group cohesion within conversations. A sample of data was annotated by human scorers, which was used as the training data to build the classification model. The annotations were further supported by finding contextually similar group cohesion expressions using word embedding models as well. AICF performance was also compared against the natural language processing software Linguistic Inquiry Word Count (LIWC). AICF was trained on 80,000 messages obtained from Cancer Chat Canada. We tested AICF on 34,048 messages. Human experts scored 6797 (20%) of the messages to evaluate the ability of AICF to classify group cohesion. Results showed that machine learning algorithms combined with human input could detect group cohesion, a clinically meaningful indicator of effective OSGs. After retraining with human input, AICF reached an F1-score of 0.82. AICF performed slightly better at identifying group cohesion compared to LIWC. AICF has the potential to assist therapists by detecting discord in the group amenable to real-time intervention. Overall, AICF presents a unique opportunity to strengthen patient-centered care in web-based settings by attending to individual needs. RR2-10.2196/21453.

An improved long short-term memory with denoising autoencoder for solving text classification problems

In the past decade, text classification has been a popular research field for automatically categorizing documents into relevant categories. Predicting classes for input samples based on their features is the goal of classification. To limit the dimension of the feature space for precise text categorization, feature selection approaches are widely used for recognizing important and affective features while ignoring unimportant, weak, and chaotic components. This paper proposes a new model referred to as DAE-LSTM for reducing data dimension through the use of a denoising autoencoder. (Long Short-Term Memory (LSTM) is one of the popular text classification approaches, particularly when dealing with sequential datasets. Additionally, the Rectified Linear Unit (Relu) activation function was used instead of the hyperbolic tangent activation function (tanh) to improve the accuracy of the model. Four benchmark datasets were used to evaluate the proposed model against 4 cutting-edge text classification methods, including conventional Bidirectional LSTM, Bidirectional GRU, CNN-LSTM, and CNN-GRU. The suggested model has been found to perform much better than current methods using several kinds of performance assessment measures.

Classification and Labeling Techniques of Educational Resources Based on BERT+CNN's Educational Text Classification Model

Modern, efficient techniques of identifying and regulating digital Educational Resources (ER) are urgently needed due to the rapid development of this area of study. Due to the level of detail and emphasis on information, conventional Text Classification (TC) techniques frequently experience problems when working with ER. To overcome these challenges, this study proposes a novel approach termed BERT-CNN, which integrates the effectiveness of BERT's knowledge of context with CNN's pattern identification skills in order to attain Deep Learning (DL). The objective of the hybrid approach is to improve educational Text Labelling (TL) and TC to be more precise, successful, and robust. The BERT-CNN model is superior to conventional approaches in various measures, including accuracy, precision, recall, F1 score, and AUC-ROC, based on thorough testing and comparison. Providing essential insights into the possibilities of integrating BERT and CNN for educational purposes, this research covers detailed methods from data collection to model development, testing, and the implementation of modern TC approaches.

RB-GAT: A Text Classification Model Based on RoBERTa-BiGRU with Graph ATtention Network.

With the development of deep learning, several graph neural network (GNN)-based approaches have been utilized for text classification. However, GNNs encounter challenges when capturing contextual text information within a document sequence. To address this, a novel text classification model, RB-GAT, is proposed by combining RoBERTa-BiGRU embedding and a multi-head Graph ATtention Network (GAT). First, the pre-trained RoBERTa model is exploited to learn word and text embeddings in different contexts. Second, the Bidirectional Gated Recurrent Unit (BiGRU) is employed to capture long-term dependencies and bidirectional sentence information from the text context. Next, the multi-head graph attention network is applied to analyze this information, which serves as a node feature for the document. Finally, the classification results are generated through a Softmax layer. Experimental results on five benchmark datasets demonstrate that our method can achieve an accuracy of 71.48%, 98.45%, 80.32%, 90.84%, and 95.67% on Ohsumed, R8, MR, 20NG and R52, respectively, which is superior to the existing nine text classification approaches.

A corpus-based real-time text classification and tagging approach for social data

With the rapid accumulation of large amounts of user-generated content through social media, social data reuse and integration have gained increasing attention recently. This has made it almost obsolete for software applications to collect, store, and work with their own data stored on local servers. While, with the provision of Application Programming Interfaces from the leading social networking sites, data acquisition and integration has become possible, the meaningful usage of such unstructured, non-uniform, and incoherent data collections needs special procedures of data summarization, understanding, and visualization. One particular aspect in this regard that needs special attention is the procedures for data (text snippets in the form of social media posts) categorization and concept tagging to filter out the relevant and most suitable data for the particular audience and for the particular purpose. In this regard, we propose a corpus-based approach for searching and successively categorizing and tagging the social data with relevant concepts in real time. The proposed approach is capable of addressing the semantical and morphological similarities, as well as domain-specific vocabularies of query strings and tagged concepts. We demonstrate the feasibility and application of our proposed approach in a web-based tool that allows searching Facebook posts and provides search results together with a concept map for further navigation, filtering, and refining of search results. The tool has been evaluated by performing multiple search queries, and resultant concept maps and annotated texts are analyzed in terms of their precision. The approach is thereby found effective in achieving its stated goal of classifying text snippets in real time.

EHR-HGCN: An Enhanced Hybrid Approach for Text Classification Using Heterogeneous Graph Convolutional Networks in Electronic Health Records.

Text classification is a central part of natural language processing, with important applications in understanding the knowledge behind biomedical texts including electronic health records (EHR). In this article, we propose a novel heterogeneous graph convolutional network method for classifying EHR texts. Our method, called EHR-HGCN, is able to combine context-sensitive word and sentence embeddings with structural sentence-level and word-level relation information to perform text classification. EHR-HGCN reframes EHR text classification as a graph classification task to better capture structural information about the document using a heterogeneous graph. To mine contextual information from a document, EHR-HGCN first applies a bidirectional recurrent neural network (BiRNN) on word embeddings obtained via Global Vectors for word representation (GloVe) to obtain context-sensitive word-level and sentence-level embeddings. To mine structural relationships from the document, EHR-HGCN then constructs a heterogeneous graph over the word and sentence embeddings, where sentence-word and word-word relationships are represented by graph edges. Finally, a heterogeneous graph convolutional neural network is used to classify documents by their graph representation. We evaluate EHR-HGCN on a variety of standard text classification benchmarks and find that EHR-HGCN has higher accuracy and F1-score than other representative machine learning and deep learning methods. We also apply EHR-HGCN to the MedLit benchmark and find it performs with high accuracy and F1-score on the task of section classification in EHR texts. Our ablation experiments show that the heterogeneous graph construction and heterogeneous graph convolutional network are critical to the performance of EHR-HGCN.

Performance, Energy Consumption and Costs: A Comparative Analysis of Automatic Text Classification Approaches in the Legal Domain

The common practice in Machine Learning research is to evaluate the top-performing models based on their performance. However, this often leads to overlooking other crucial aspects that should be given careful consideration. In some cases, the performance differences between various approaches may be insignificant, whereas factors like production costs, energy consumption, and carbon footprint should be taken into account. Large Language Models (LLMs) are widely used in academia and industry to address NLP problems. In this study, we present a comprehensive quantitative comparison between traditional approaches (SVM-based) and more recent approaches such as LLM (BERT family models) and generative models (GPT2 and LLAMA2), using the LexGLUE benchmark. Our evaluation takes into account not only performance parameters (standard indices), but also alternative measures such as timing, energy consumption and costs, which collectively contribute to the carbon footprint. To ensure a complete analysis, we separately considered the prototyping phase (which involves model selection through training-validation-test iterations) and the in-production phases. These phases follow distinct implementation procedures and require different resources. The results indicate that simpler algorithms often achieve performance levels similar to those of complex models (LLM and generative models), consuming much less energy and requiring fewer resources. These findings suggest that companies should consider additional considerations when choosing machine learning (ML) solutions. The analysis also demonstrates that it is increasingly necessary for the scientific world to also begin to consider aspects of energy consumption in model evaluations, in order to be able to give real meaning to the results obtained using standard metrics (Precision, Recall, F1 and so on).

Classifying Muslim Ideologies from Islamic Websites using Text Analysis Based on Naive Bayes and TF-IDF

Reliable digital Islamic information is one of the challenges faced by innocent Islamic information seekers such as young Muslims, new Muslims as well as others who desire to find authentic information about Islam, Prophet Muhammad (saw), and Muslims, in general. Several deviant ideologies abound, and they also present their information using the internet, sometimes involving digital deception. In the digital era, misleading Islamic information may affect people’s beliefs, behaviours, and attitudes. Many websites are equally based on several schools of thought regarding Islamic practices which could be difficult for the new Muslims, and the young generation of Muslims to recognize what to follow among these different websites based on the information presented on the sites. Some other variants of practices are considered to be deviants by the mainstream Sunni scholars which may be misleading for innocent Islamic information seekers including non-Muslims. Consequently, the need to categorize different Islamic websites based on different schools and branches becomes imperative. This initial study focuses classification of Islamic websites utilising website categorization and text classification approach to their textual contents. The proposed technique classified 60 Islamic websites into two various categories Sunni and Shia using TF-IDF for features extraction while using Multinomial Naive Bayes for classification. In addition, extracting the keywords for each of the two categories assisted in the classification process. The results show that Multinomial Naive Bayes was easily implemented and predicted the categories of Islamic websites with an accuracy of 0.89, precision 1.0, recall 0.80, as well as an F1 score of 0.89. The keywords that differentiate Sunni websites from Shia's websites were extracted. It was found that the best keywords that can be used in search engines to identify Sunni websites are Islam and Muslim, while Shia and Imam are the most prominent keywords that can be used to identify Shia's websites.

A new sentence embedding framework for the education and professional training domain with application to hierarchical multi-label text classification

In recent years, Natural Language Processing (NLP) has made significant advances through advanced general language embeddings, allowing breakthroughs in NLP tasks such as semantic similarity and text classification. However, complexity increases with hierarchical multi-label classification (HMC), where a single entity can belong to several hierarchically organized classes. In such complex situations, applied on specific-domain texts, such as the Education and professional training domain, general language embedding models often inadequately represent the unique terminologies and contextual nuances of a specialized domain. To tackle this problem, we present HMCCCProbT, a novel hierarchical multi-label text classification approach. This innovative framework chains multiple classifiers, where each individual classifier is built using a novel sentence-embedding method BERTEPro based on existing Transformer models, whose pre-training has been extended on education and professional training texts, before being fine-tuned on several NLP tasks. Each individual classifier is responsible for the predictions of a given hierarchical level and propagates local probability predictions augmented with the input feature vectors to the classifier in charge of the subsequent level. HMCCCProbT tackles issues of model scalability and semantic interpretation, offering a powerful solution to the challenges of domain-specific hierarchical multi-label classification. Experiments over three domain-specific textual HMC datasets indicate the effectiveness of HMCCCProbT to compare favorably to state-of-the-art HMC algorithms in terms of classification accuracy and also the ability of BERTEPro to obtain better probability predictions, well suited to HMCCCProbT, than three other vector representation techniques.

RSS-LSTM: A Metaheuristic-Driven Optimization Approach for Efficient Text Classification

RSS-LSTM: A Metaheuristic-Driven Optimization Approach for Efficient Text Classification

A Hybrid Deep Learning GRU based Approach for Text Classification using Word Embedding

Text categorization has become an increasingly important issue for businesses that handle massive volumes of data generated online, and it has found substantial use in the field of NLP. The capacity to group texts into separate categories is crucial for users to effectively retain and utilize important information. Our goal is to improve upon existing recurrent neural network (RNN) techniques for text classification by creating a deep learning strategy through our study. Raising the quality of the classifications made is the main difficulty in text classification, nevertheless, as the overall efficacy of text classification is often hampered by the data semantics' inadequate context sensitivity. Our study presents a unified approach to examine the effects of word embedding and the GRU on text classification to address this difficulty. In this study, we use the TREC standard dataset. RCNN has four convolution layers, four LSTM levels, and two GRU layers. RNN, on the other hand, has four GRU layers and four LSTM levels. One kind of recurrent neural network (RNN) that is well-known for its comprehension of sequential data is the gated recurrent unit (GRU). We found in our tests that words with comparable meanings are typically found near each other in embedding spaces. The trials' findings demonstrate that our hybrid GRU model is capable of efficiently picking up word usage patterns from the provided training set. Remember that the depth and breadth of the training data greatly influence the model's effectiveness. Our suggested method performs remarkably well when compared to other well-known recurrent algorithms such as RNN, MV-RNN, and LSTM on a single benchmark dataset. In comparison to the hybrid GRU's F-measure 0.952, the proposed model's F-measure is 0.982%. We compared the performance of the proposed method to that of the three most popular recurrent neural network designs at the moment RNNs, MV-RNNs, and LSTMs, and found that the new method achieved better results on two benchmark datasets, both in terms of accuracy and error rate.

A manually annotated corpus in French for the study of urbanization and the natural risk prevention

Land artificialization is a serious problem of civilization. Urban planning and natural risk management are aimed to improve it. In France, these practices operate the Local Land Plans (PLU – Plan Local d’Urbanisme) and the Natural risk prevention plans (PPRn – Plan de Prévention des Risques naturels) containing land use rules. To facilitate automatic extraction of the rules, we manually annotated a number of those documents concerning Montpellier, a rapidly evolving agglomeration exposed to natural risks. We defined a format for labeled examples in which each entry includes title and subtitle. In addition, we proposed a hierarchical representation of class labels to generalize the use of our corpus. Our corpus, consisting of 1934 textual segments, each of which labeled by one of the 4 classes (Verifiable, Non-verifiable, Informative and Not pertinent) is the first corpus in the French language in the fields of urban planning and natural risk management. Along with presenting the corpus, we tested a state-of-the-art approach for text classification to demonstrate its usability for automatic rule extraction.

Automated Detection of Persuasive Content in Electronic News

Persuasive content in online news contains elements that aim to persuade its readers and may not necessarily include factual information. Since a news article only has some sentences that indicate persuasiveness, it would be quite challenging to differentiate news with or without the persuasive content. Recognizing persuasive sentences with a text summarization and classification approach is important to understand persuasive messages effectively. Text summarization identifies arguments and key points, while classification separates persuasive sentences based on the linguistic and semantic features used. Our proposed architecture includes text summarization approaches to shorten sentences without persuasive content and then using classifiers model to detect those with persuasive indication. In this paper, we compare the performance of latent semantic analysis (LSA) and TextRank in text summarization methods, the latter of which has outperformed in all trials, and also two classifiers of convolutional neural network (CNN) and bidirectional long short-term memory (BiLSTM). We have prepared a dataset (±1700 data and manually persuasiveness-labeled) consisting of news articles written in the Indonesian language collected from a nationwide electronic news portal. Comparative studies in our experimental results show that the TextRank–BERT–BiLSTM model achieved the highest accuracy of 95% in detecting persuasive news. The text summarization methods were able to generate detailed and precise summaries of the news articles and the deep learning models were able to effectively differentiate between persuasive news and real news.

A deep learning approach for image and text classification using neutrosophy

A deep learning approach for image and text classification using neutrosophy