Using Encyclopedic Knowledge for Automatic Topic Identification (open access)

Using Encyclopedic Knowledge for Automatic Topic Identification

This paper presents a method for automatic topic identification using an encyclopedic graph derived from Wikipedia. The system is found to exceed the performance of previously proposed machine learning algorithms for topic identification, with an annotation consistency comparable to human annotations.
Date: May 2009
Creator: Coursey, Kino High; Mihalcea, Rada, 1974- & Moen, William E.
System: The UNT Digital Library