Fuzzy clustering for semi-supervised learning - Case study: Construction of an emotion lexicon

Soujanya Poria, Alexander Gelbukh, Dipankar Das, Sivaji Bandyopadhyay

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Abstract

We consider the task of semi-supervised classification: extending category labels from a small dataset of labeled examples to a much larger set. We show that, at least on our case study task, unsupervised fuzzy clustering of the unlabeled examples helps in obtaining the hard clusters. Namely, we used the membership values obtained with fuzzy clustering as additional features for hard clustering. We also used these membership values to reduce the confusion set for the hard clustering. As a case study, we use applied the proposed method to the task of constructing a large emotion lexicon by extending the emotion labels from the WordNet Affect lexicon using various features of words. Some of the features were extracted from the emotional statements of the freely available ISEAR dataset; other features were WordNet distance and the similarity measured via the polarity scores in the SenticNet resource. The proposed method classified words by emotion labels with high accuracy.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationAdvances in Artificial Intelligence - 11th Mexican International Conference on Artificial Intelligence, MICAI 2012, Revised Selected Papers
Pages73-86
Number of pages14
EditionPART 1
DOIs
StatePublished - 2013
Event11th Mexican International Conference on Artificial Intelligence, MICAI 2012 - San Luis Potosi, Mexico
Duration: 27 Oct 20124 Nov 2012

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
NumberPART 1
Volume7629 LNAI
ISSN (Print)0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)1611-3349

Conference

Conference11th Mexican International Conference on Artificial Intelligence, MICAI 2012
Country/TerritoryMexico
CitySan Luis Potosi
Period27/10/124/11/12

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