Harmonizing String and Unification-based Methodology with Machine Learning for Text Mining and Processing

该研究方案旨在三个层次上推进自然语言处理的技术水平，以满足对更好的信息处理的需求。在最低级别，字符和单词n-gram处理，我们的目标是通过使用可变长度n-gram轮廓来改进基于n-gram的文本挖掘，通过n-gram轮廓和相应的欧拉图的可视化来改进基于n-gram的可视文本分析，在更深的模型层次上将当前CNG距离度量与其他测量(例如，Jaccard，Dice)进行比较，使用Google N-gram数据来改进标准语言n-gram轮廓，并改编了归一化谷歌距离，实现了离线距离。在处理的中间级别(基于RegEx)，我们将推进用于定向情感分析和嘈杂文本解析的正则表达式模式的开发，研究生成基于RegEx的模式的方法，从Google N-gram数据生成模式，并扩展StarFish系统以进行文本嵌入处理。在第三个层次，即统一层，我们的目标是：将子图同构技术从生物医学科学领域的分析转移到从社交媒体上收集信息，从维基百科数据生成概念语义关系，以及基于语义的流文本数据可视化，如电子邮件流的可视化。我们的方法是基于这三个语言处理级别的以前的工作：(1)公共N-Gram分析(CNG)，其中文本数据是使用字符n-gram轮廓建模的；(2)基于正则表达式的文本数据处理，基于应用RegEx重写模式，并将数据与相似模式进行匹配；(3)在统一级别，我们使用统一或子图同构来进行信息提取和匹配，并且结构数据本身是通过使用基于随机统一的语法分析来生成的。该方法的新颖性和预期意义在于改进了方法，以提供直观的文本分析，即可视化和与用户更密切的互动，并更好地调整和发展方法，以适应因互联网数据和社交媒体的扩展而产生的新的文本数据和新颖的应用。这些方法的重要性得到了行业合作伙伴在社交媒体数据汇总分析领域的强烈兴趣的支持。

This research proposal aims at advancing the state of the art in the natural language processing at three levels in order to meet demands for better information processing.  At the lowest level, the character and word n-gram level processing, our objectives are to improve n-gram based text mining through the use of variable-length n-gram profiles, n-gram based visual text analytics through visualization of n-gram profiles and corresponding Eulerian graphs, comparison of current CNG distance measure with other measures (e.g., Jaccard, Dice) at a deeper model level, use of Google N-grams data in improving the standard language n-gram profiles, and adaptation of Normalized google Distance to achieve an off-line distance. At the middle level of processing (RegEx based), we will advance development of regular expression patterns for directed sentiment analysis and parsing of noisy text, examining the ways to generate RegEx-based patterns, generating patterns from Google N-grams data, and extending the Starfish system for text-embedded processing. At the third level, the unification level, our bojectives are: to transfer sub-graph isomorphism technique from analysis in biomedical scientific domain to information gathering from social media, concept semantic relationship generation from Wikipedia data, and semantic-based visualization of stream textual data, such as visualization of e-mail streams. Our Approach is based on the previous work ot these three levels of language processing: (1) Common N-Gram analysis (CNG), where the text data is modelled using character n-gram profiles; (2) Regular Expression based processing of textual data, based on applying RegEx rewriting patterns, and matching the data with similar patterns, and (3) at the Unification level, we apply information extraction and matching using unification or sub-graph isomorphism, and the structural data itself is generated by parsing using the stochastic unification-based grammars. Novelty and Expected Significance of the approach is based on improving methodology to provide for visual text analysis, i.e., visualization and closer interaction with the user, and for better adaptation and development of methodology for new kind of textual data and novel applications coming from the expansion of Internet data and social media. The significance of the approaches is supported by strong interest coming from industrial partners in the area of summarized analysis of social media data.