Abstract Concept Instantiation with Context Relevance Measurement

Authors

  • Shengwei Gu School of Computer Engineering and Science, Shanghai University, Shanghai, China and School of Computer and Information Engineering, Chuzhou University, Chuzhou, China https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1003-0185
  • Xiangfeng Luo School of Computer Engineering and Science, Shanghai University, Shanghai, China and Shanghai Institute for Advanced Communication and Data Science, Shanghai University, Shanghai, China
  • Hao Wang School of Computer Engineering and Science, Shanghai University, Shanghai, China and Shanghai Institute for Advanced Communication and Data Science, Shanghai University, Shanghai, China
  • Jing Huang Ant Financial Services Group, Hangzhou, China
  • Subin Huang School of Computer Engineering and Science, Shanghai University, Shanghai, China and School of Computer and Information, Anhui Polytechnic University, Wuhu, China

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.13052/jwe1540-9589.19562

Keywords:

Abstract concept instantiation, contextual constraint, instance ranking

Abstract

In different contexts, one abstract concept (e.g., fruit) may be mapped into different concrete instance sets, which is called abstract concept instantiation. It has been widely applied in many applications, such as web search, intelligent recommendation, etc. However, in most abstract concept instantiation models have the following problems: (1) the neglect of incorrect label and label incompleteness in the category structure on which instance selection relies; (2) the subjective design of instance profile for calculating the relevance between instance and contextual constraint. The above problems lead to false prediction in terms of abstract concept instantiation. To tackle these problems, we proposed a novel model to instantiate the abstract concept. Firstly, to alleviate the incorrect label and remedy label incompleteness in the category structure, an improved random-walk algorithm is proposed, called InstanceRank, which not only utilize the category information, but it also exploits the association information to infer the right instances of an abstract concept. Secondly, for better measuring the relevance between instances and contextual constraint, we learn the proper instance profile from different granularity ones. They are designed based on the surrounding text of the instance. Finally, noise reduction and instance filtering are introduced to further enhance the model performance. Experiments on Chinese food abstract concept set show that the proposed model can effectively reduce false positive and false negative of instantiation results.

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Author Biographies

Shengwei Gu, School of Computer Engineering and Science, Shanghai University, Shanghai, China and School of Computer and Information Engineering, Chuzhou University, Chuzhou, China

Shengwei Gu received the master’s degree in School of Mathematics and Computer Science from Nanjing Normal University in 2008, China. Currently, he is pursuing his PhD degree in the School of Computer Engineering and Science, Shanghai University, China. His main research interests include information retrieval and question answering systems.

Xiangfeng Luo, School of Computer Engineering and Science, Shanghai University, Shanghai, China and Shanghai Institute for Advanced Communication and Data Science, Shanghai University, Shanghai, China

Xiangfeng Luo is a professor in the School of Computer Engineering and Science, Shanghai University, China. He received the master’s and PhD degrees from the Hefei University of Technology in 2000 and 2003, respectively. He was a postdoctoral researcher with the China Knowledge Grid Research Group, Institute of Computing Technology (ICT), Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), from 2003 to 2005. His main research interests include Web Wisdom, Cognitive Informatics, and Text Understanding. He has authored or co-authored more than 50 publications and his publications have appeared in IEEE Trans. on Automation Science and Engineering, IEEE Trans. on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics-Part C, and IEEE Trans. on Learning Technology, Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience, etc. He has served as the Guest Editor of ACM Transactions on Intelligent Systems and Technology, as well as more than 40 PC members of conferences and workshops.

Hao Wang, School of Computer Engineering and Science, Shanghai University, Shanghai, China and Shanghai Institute for Advanced Communication and Data Science, Shanghai University, Shanghai, China

Hao Wang received the PhD degree from Waseda University in 2019, partly supported by Oversea Graduate Student Project of the China Scholarship Council. He is currently an assistant professor of Shanghai University. His research interests include natural language processing, especially machine translation.

Jing Huang, Ant Financial Services Group, Hangzhou, China

Jing Huang received his master’s degree from Nankai University and Boston University in 1995 and 1998, respectively. He is currently working at Ant Financial Services Group, Hangzhou, China. His research interests include data mining and knowledge graph.

Subin Huang, School of Computer Engineering and Science, Shanghai University, Shanghai, China and School of Computer and Information, Anhui Polytechnic University, Wuhu, China

Subin Huang received the master’s degree in School of Computer and Information from Anhui Polytechnic University in 2012, China. Currently, he is pursuing his PhD degree in the School of Computer Engineering and Science, Shanghai University, China. His main research interests include information retrieval, data mining, and knowledge graph.

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Published

2020-09-27

How to Cite

Gu, S., Luo, X., Wang, H., Huang, J., & Huang, S. (2020). Abstract Concept Instantiation with Context Relevance Measurement. Journal of Web Engineering, 19(5-6), 575–602. https://doi.org/10.13052/jwe1540-9589.19562

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