Criação de vetores temáticos de domínios para a desambiguação polissêmica de termos.

Abstract

Terms ambiguity is one of the factors that hinders the document indexation and information retrieval processes desired by a user. This work is based on the hypothesis that part of this problem can be minimized by knowing beforehand the field of the document that contains ambiguous terms. To determine this domain, typical vocabularies were created through the extraction of terms from documents of predetermined knowledge domains, with the use of syntactical rules. Wikipedia was used as a consultation base because it is a digital encyclopedia that contains the categories defined similar to the Universal Decimal Classification (UDC), each category containing a vast amount of specific documents, being this feature essential for the formation of a domain-specific vocabulary. The choice of the categories was based on the UDC, composed of 10 domains and their respective subdomains. The vocabularies obtained, denominated as Thematic Domain Vectors (TDV), served as the basis for the classification of new documents. For the validation of the TDVs, three different types of experiments were performed: the first was to classify new documents using the vectorial method, with the TDV as a basis of consultation. The second experiment was a classification using another classifier, the Intellexer Categorizer. For the third experiment was created a vector of terms through Weka, which was submitted to serve as a a consultation base to classify new documents using the vectorial model. The results were satisfactory, because they showed that the TDV obtained a better classification relative to other methods. Of the 14 new documents, properly it rated 10 and 4 incorrectly, with an accuracy of 80%, against 57% accuracy of the Intellexer Categorizer program and 50% of the classification using the Weka created vector of terms.