Distributed keyword vector representation for document categorization

In the age of information explosion, efficiently categorizing the topic of a document can assist our organization and comprehension of the vast amount of text. In this paper, we propose a novel approach, named DKV, for document categorization using distributed real-valued vector representation of keywords learned from neural networks. Such a representation can project rich context information (or embedding) into the vector space, and subsequently be used to infer similarity measures among words, sentences, and even documents. Using a Chinese news corpus containing over 100,000 articles and five topics, we provide a comprehensive performance evaluation to demonstrate that by exploiting the keyword embeddings, DKV paired with support vector machines can effectively categorize a document into the predefined topics. Results demonstrate that our method can achieve the best performances compared to several other approaches.