TECNE: Knowledge based text classification using network embeddings

Text classification is an important and challenging task due to its application in various domains such as document organization and news filtering. Several supervised learning approaches have been proposed for text classification. However, most of them require a significant amount of training data. Manually labeling such data can be very time-consuming and costly. To overcome the problem of labeled data, we demonstrate TECNE, a knowledge-based text classification method using network embeddings. The proposed system does not require any labeled training data to classify an arbitrary text. Instead, it relies on the semantic similarity between entities appearing in a given text and a set of predefined categories to determine a category which the given document belongs to.