Research Area:  Data Mining
Efficient distributed numerical word representation models (word embeddings) combined with modern machine learning algorithms have recently yielded considerable improvement on automatic document classification tasks. However, the effectiveness of such techniques has not been assessed for the hierarchical text classification (HTC) yet. This study investigates the application of those models and algorithms on this specific problem by means of experimentation and analysis. We trained classification models with prominent machine learning algorithm implementations—fastText, XGBoost, SVM, and Keras’ CNN—and noticeable word embeddings generation methods—GloVe, word2vec, and fastText—with publicly available data and evaluated them with measures specifically appropriate for the hierarchical context. FastText achieved an lcaF1 of 0.893 on a single-labeled version of the RCV1 dataset. An analysis indicates that using word embeddings and its flavors is a very promising approach for HTC.
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Author(s) Name:  Roger Alan Stein,Patricia A. Jaques and João Francisco Valiati
Journal name:  Information Sciences
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Publisher name:  ELSEVIER
DOI:  10.1016/j.ins.2018.09.001
Volume Information:  Volume 471, January 2019, Pages 216-232
Paper Link:   https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0020025518306935#!