A comparative assessment of machine learning methods in extracting place functionality from textual content

Abstract

Places are usually ambiguous and context dependent. Place functionality as a context in place descriptions is one of the prominent and distinguishing features of place. Today, due to the rapid growth of the Internet and social networks, users usually share place-based information. Among the types of information, user-generated textual content is not usually shared in a specific structure. This article aims to extract place functionality using analysis of user-generated textual contents shared by users. For this purpose, we try to extract and predict the place functionality through the whole user reviews as well as only the action verbs expressed in the reviews. In this research, series of comparative experiments was conducted to highlight the influence of action verbs on the prediction of place functionality and to evaluate the predictability across different natural language processing (NLP) methods. We compare the efficiency of three NLP methods in selecting and extracting features, as well as different machine learning text classifier methods to predict place functionality. Evaluation results show that using the whole text of the review can extract place functionality better than using only the action verbs. Also, the bag-of-words feature extraction method performs better than the two embedding methods. Among text classification algorithms, although the multinomial naïve Bayes method is the fastest method, the support vector machine method is more accurate than all other methods, while the execution time of the algorithm is longer. In addition, among

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