NAME

NNexus::Classification - Dismabiguation logic for NNexus concept harvests

SYNOPSIS

  use NNexus::Classification qw(disambiguate msc_similarity);
  $concepts_refined = disambiguate($concept_harvest,%options);
  $similarity_score = msc_similarity($category1,$category2);

DESCRIPTION

NNexus::Classification contains disambiguation and clustering algorithms for determining a subset of "relevant" concept candidates from a given concept harvest. Relevance is determined heuristically.

The current algorithm considers two facets of "relevance":

  1. Relevant candidates come from empirically similar domains of knowledge.
    
  To this extent, a similarity metric has been extracted from 3+ million mathematical reviews
  in Zentrallblatt Math, each annotated with categories from the Math Subject Classification.

  2. Technical terms are more likely to be relevant. Consequently:
  - The more words in a candidate, the more likely that it is a term
  - The more characters in a candidate, the more likely that it is a term

METHODS

$concepts_refined = disambiguate($concept_harvest,%options);

Disambiguates a concept harvest, as returned by NNexus::Discover, following the algorithm in the description.

Currently the only accepted option is a boolean value for "verbosity".

$similarity_score = msc_similarity($category1,$category2);

Retrieves the ZBL similarity score of two MSC categories given via the standard MSC naming scheme (e.g. 00-XX, 15Axx, 15B33)

Note that currently the similarity metric only covers the top-level MSC categories.

AUTHOR

Deyan Ginev <d.ginev@jacobs-university.de>

COPYRIGHT

 Research software, produced as part of work done by 
 the KWARC group at Jacobs University Bremen.
 Released under the MIT License (MIT)