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Monitoring Term Drift Based on SemanticConsistency in an Evolving Vector Field
University of Borås, Faculty of Librarianship, Information, Education and IT.ORCID iD: 0000-0002-1539-8256
University of Borås, Faculty of Librarianship, Information, Education and IT. (DIGRES)
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2015 (English)In: Proceedings of IJCNN-15, 2015Conference paper, Published paper (Refereed)
Abstract [en]

Based on the Aristotelian concept of potentialityvs. actuality allowing for the study of energy and dynamics inlanguage, we propose a field approach to lexical analysis. Fallingback on the distributional hypothesis to statistically model wordmeaning, we used evolving fields as a metaphor to express timedependentchanges in a vector space model by a combinationof random indexing and evolving self-organizing maps (ESOM).To monitor semantic drifts within the observation period, anexperiment was carried out on the term space of a collection of12.8 million Amazon book reviews. For evaluation, the semanticconsistency of ESOM term clusters was compared with theirrespective neighbourhoods in WordNet, and contrasted withdistances among term vectors by random indexing. We found thatat 0.05 level of significance, the terms in the clusters showed a highlevel of semantic consistency. Tracking the drift of distributionalpatterns in the term space across time periods, we found thatconsistency decreased, but not at a statistically significant level.Our method is highly scalable, with interpretations in philosophy.

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evolving semantics, index terms, vector field, self-organizing maps, knowledge organization, digital preservation
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Library and Information Science
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URN: urn:nbn:se:hb:diva-8527OAI: oai:DiVA.org:hb-8527DiVA, id: diva2:894316
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International Joint Conference on Neural Networks
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EU, FP7, Seventh Framework Programme, FP7-601138Available from: 2016-01-14 Created: 2016-01-14 Last updated: 2018-01-10Bibliographically approved

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