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1 CS76A Text Retrieval and Mining Lecture 5 Recap: Clustering Hierarchical clustering Agglomerative clustering techniques Evaluation Term vs. document space clustering Multi-lingual docs Feature selection Labeling Thans to Thomas Hoffman, Brown University for sharing many of these slides. Eigenvalues & Eigenvectors Linear Algebra Bacground Eigenvectors (for a square m m matrix S) Example (right) eigenvector eigenvalue How many eigenvalues are there at most? only has a non-zero solution if this is a m-th order equation in λ which can have at most m distinct solutions (roots of the characteristic polynomial) can be complex even though S is real. Matrix-vector multiplication S has eigenvalues,, with corresponding eigenvectors v v v On each eigenvector, S acts as a multiple of the identity matrix: but as a different multiple on each. Any vector (say x 4 ) can be viewed as a combination of 6 the eigenvectors: x v + 4v + 6v Matrix vector multiplication Thus a matrix-vector multiplication such as Sx (S, x as in the previous slide) can be rewritten in terms of the eigenvalues/vectors: Sx S(v + 4v Sx Sv + 4Sv + 6v ) + 6Sv λ v + 4λ v + 6λ v Even though x is an arbitrary vector, the action of S on x is determined by the eigenvalues/vectors. Suggestion: the effect of small eigenvalues is small.

2 Eigenvalues & Eigenvectors For symmetric matrices, eigenvectors for distinct eigenvalues are orthogonal Sv λ v and λ λ v v {,} {,} {,}, All eigenvalues of a real symmetric matrix are real. for complex λ, if S λi and S S T λ R All eigenvalues of a positive semidefinite matrix are non-negative n T w R, w Sw, then if Sv λv λ Example Let Then S λ S λi ( ). λ λ The eigenvalues are and (nonnegative, real). The eigenvectors are orthogonal (and real): Real, symmetric. Plug in these values and solve for eigenvectors. Eigen/diagonal Decomposition Let be a square matrix with m linearly independent eigenvectors (a non-defective matrix) Unique for Theorem: Exists an eigen decomposition distinct diagonal eigenvalues (cf. matrix diagonalization theorem) Columns of U are eigenvectors of S Diagonal elements of are eigenvalues of Diagonal decomposition: why/how Let U have the eigenvectors as columns: U v... Then, SU can be written SU S v v n λ... v n λ v... λnvn v... vn... Thus SUUΛ, or U SUΛ λ n And SUΛU. Diagonal decomposition - example Recall S ;,. λ λ The eigenvectors and form U / Inverting, we have U / Then, SUΛU / / Recall UU. / / / / Example continued Let s divide U (and multiply U ) by Then, S / / / / / / / / Q Λ (Q - Q T ) Why? Stay tuned

3 Symmetric Eigen Decomposition If is a symmetric matrix: Theorem: Exists a (unique) eigen T decomposition S QΛQ where Q is orthogonal: Q - Q T Columns of Q are normalized eigenvectors Columns are orthogonal. (everything is real) Exercise Examine the symmetric eigen decomposition, if any, for each of the following matrices: 4 Time out! I came to this class to learn about text retrieval and mining, not have my linear algebra past dredged up again But if you want to dredge, Strang s Applied Mathematics is a good place to start. What do these matrices have to do with text? Recall m n term-document matrices But everything so far needs square matrices so Singular Value Decomposition For an m n matrix A of ran r there exists a factorization (Singular Value Decomposition SVD) as follows: T A UΣV m m m n V is n n The columns of U are orthogonal eigenvectors of AA T. The columns of V are orthogonal eigenvectors of A T A. Eigenvalues λ λ r of AA T are the eigenvalues of A T A. Σ σ i λ i diag σ... σ r ( ) Singular values. Singular Value Decomposition Illustration of SVD dimensions and sparseness SVD example Let A Thus m, n. Its SVD is / / / / / / / / / / / / Typically, the singular values arranged in decreasing order.

4 Low-ran Approximation SVD can be used to compute optimal low-ran approximations. Approximation problem: Find A of ran such that A min ) X : ran ( X A X F Frobenius norm Low-ran Approximation Solution via SVD A U diag( σ,..., σ,,...,) V set smallest r- singular values to zero T A and X are both m n matrices. Typically, want << r. T A σ i iuiv i column notation: sum of ran matrices Approximation error How good (bad) is this approximation? It s the best possible, measured by the Frobenius norm of the error: A X A A σ min F F + X : ran ( X ) where the σ i are ordered such that σ i σ i+. Suggests why Frobenius error drops as increased. Recall random projection Completely different method for low-ran approximation Was data-oblivious SVD-based approximation is data-dependent Error for random projection depended only on start/finish dimensionality For every distance Error for SVD-based approximation is for the Frobenius norm, not for individual distances SVD Low-ran approximation Whereas the term-doc matrix A may have m5, n million (and ran close to 5) We can construct an approximation A with ran. Of all ran matrices, it would have the lowest Frobenius error. Great but why would we?? Answer: Latent Semantic Indexing Latent Semantic Analysis via SVD C. Ecart, G. Young, The approximation of a matrix by another of lower ran. Psychometria,, -8, 96. 4

5 What it is From term-doc matrix A, we compute the approximation A. There is a row for each term and a column for each doc in A Thus docs live in a space of <<r dimensions These dimensions are not the original axes But why? Vector Space Model: Pros Automatic selection of index terms Partial matching of queries and documents (dealing with the case where no document contains all search terms) Raning according to similarity score (dealing with large result sets) Term weighting schemes (improves retrieval performance) Various extensions Document clustering Relevance feedbac (modifying query vector) Geometric foundation Problems with Lexical Semantics Polysemy and Context Ambiguity and association in natural language Polysemy: Words often have a multitude of meanings and different types of usage (more urgent for very heterogeneous collections). The vector space model is unable to discriminate between different meanings of the same word. Synonymy: Different terms may have an identical or a similar meaning (weaer: words indicating the same topic). No associations between words are made in the vector space representation. Document similarity on single word level: polysemy and context planet... saturn... contribution to similarity, if used in st meaning, but not if in nd meaning meaning ring jupiter space voyager car company dodge ford Latent Semantic Analysis Latent Semantic Analysis Perform a low-ran approximation of document-term matrix (typical ran -) General idea Map documents (and terms) to a low-dimensional representation. Design a mapping such that the low-dimensional space reflects semantic associations (latent semantic space). Compute document similarity based on the inner product in this latent semantic space Goals Similar terms map to similar location in low dimensional space Noise reduction by dimension reduction Latent semantic space: illustrating example courtesy of Susan Dumais 5

6 Performing the maps Each row and column of A gets mapped into the -dimensional LSI space, by the SVD. Claim this is not only the mapping with the best (Frobenius error) approximation to A, but in fact improves retrieval. A query q is also mapped into this space, by q T q U Σ Query NOT a sparse vector. Empirical evidence Experiments on TREC // Dumais Lanczos SVD code (available on netlib) due to Berry used in these expts Running times of ~ one day on tens of thousands of docs Dimensions various values 5-5 reported (Under reported unsatisfactory) Generally expect recall to improve what about precision? Empirical evidence Precision at or above median TREC precision Top scorer on almost % of TREC topics Slightly better on average than straight vector spaces Effect of dimensionality: Dimensions 5 46 Precision Failure modes Negated phrases TREC topics sometimes negate certain query/terms phrases automatic conversion of topics to Boolean queries As usual, freetext/vector space syntax of LSI queries precludes (say) Find any doc having to do with the following 5 companies See Dumais for more. But why is this clustering? Intuition from bloc matrices We ve taled about docs, queries, retrieval and precision here. What does this have to do with clustering? Intuition: Dimension reduction through LSI brings together related axes in the vector space. m terms Bloc n documents What s the ran of this matrix? s Bloc s Bloc non-zero entries. 6

7 Intuition from bloc matrices Intuition from bloc matrices n documents n documents Bloc Bloc What s the best ran- approximation to this matrix? m terms Bloc s m terms Bloc s s Bloc s Bloc Vocabulary partitioned into topics (clusters); each doc discusses only one topic. non-zero entries. wiper tire V6 Intuition from bloc matrices Bloc Liely there s a good ran- approximation to this matrix. Bloc Few nonzero entries Simplistic picture Topic Topic car automobile Few nonzero entries Bloc Topic Some wild extrapolation The dimensionality of a corpus is the number of distinct topics represented in it. More mathematical wild extrapolation: if A has a ran approximation of low Frobenius error, then there are no more than distinct topics in the corpus. LSI has many other applications In many settings in pattern recognition and retrieval, we have a feature-object matrix. For text, the terms are features and the docs are objects. Could be opinions and users more in 76B. This matrix may be redundant in dimensionality. Can wor with low-ran approximation. If entries are missing (e.g., users opinions), can recover if dimensionality is low. Powerful general analytical technique Close, principled analog to clustering methods. 7

8 Resources Dumais (99) LSI meets TREC: A status report. Dumais (994) Latent Semantic Indexing (LSI) and TREC-. Dumais (995) Using LSI for information filtering: TREC- experiments. M. Berry, S. Dumais and G. O'Brien. Using linear algebra for intelligent information retrieval. SIAM Review, 7(4): ,