These are the slides from my talk for Text by the Bay in April 2015.

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LSA-ing Wikipedia with Spark
Sandy Ryza | Senior Data Scientist

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Me
• Data scientist at Cloudera
• Recently lead Cloudera’s Apache Spark
development
• Author of Advanced Analytics with Spark

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LSA-ing Wikipedia with Spark
Sandy Ryza | Senior Data Scientist

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Latent Semantic Analysis
• Fancy name for applying a matrix decomposition (SVD) to text data

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Parse
Raw Data
Clean
Term-
Document
Matrix
SVD
Interpret
Results

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Parse
Raw Data
Clean
Term-
Document
Matrix
SVD
Interpret
Results

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Wikipedia Content Data Set
• http://dumps.wikimedia.org/enwiki/latest/
• XML-formatted
• 46 GB uncompressed

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<page>
<title>Anarchism</title>
<ns>0</ns>
<id>12</id>
<revision>
<id>584215651</id>
<parentid>584213644</parentid>
<timestamp>2013-12-02T15:14:01Z</timestamp>
<contributor>
<username>AnomieBOT</username>
<id>7611264</id>
</contributor>
<comment>Rescuing orphaned refs (&quot;autogenerated1&quot; from rev
584155010; &quot;bbc&quot; from rev 584155010)</comment>
<text xml:space="preserve">{{Redirect|Anarchist|the fictional character|
Anarchist (comics)}}
{{Redirect|Anarchists}}
{{pp-move-indef}}
{{Anarchism sidebar}}
'''Anarchism''' is a [[political philosophy]] that advocates [[stateless society|
stateless societies]] often defined as [[self-governance|self-governed]] voluntary
institutions,&lt;ref&gt;&quot;ANARCHISM, a social philosophy that rejects
authoritarian government and maintains that voluntary institutions are best suited
to express man's natural social tendencies.&quot; George Woodcock.
&quot;Anarchism&quot; at The Encyclopedia of Philosophy&lt;/ref&gt;&lt;ref&gt;
&quot;In a society developed on these lines, the voluntary associations which
already now begin to cover all the fields of human activity would take a still
greater extension so as to substitute
...

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Parse
Raw Data
Clean
Term-
Document
Matrix
SVD
Interpret
Results

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import org.apache.mahout.text.wikipedia.XmlInputFormat
import org.apache.hadoop.conf.Configuration
import org.apache.hadoop.io._
val path = "hdfs:///user/ds/wikidump.xml"
val conf = new Configuration()
conf.set(XmlInputFormat.START_TAG_KEY, "<page>")
conf.set(XmlInputFormat.END_TAG_KEY, "</page>")
val kvs = sc.newAPIHadoopFile(path,
classOf[XmlInputFormat],
classOf[LongWritable],
classOf[Text],
conf)
val rawXmls = kvs.map(p => p._2.toString)

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Parse
Raw Data
Clean
Term-
Document
Matrix
SVD
Interpret
Results

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Lemmatization
“the boy’s cars are different colors”
“the boy car be different color”

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CoreNLP
def createNLPPipeline(): StanfordCoreNLP = {
val props = new Properties()
props.put("annotators", "tokenize, ssplit, pos, lemma")
new StanfordCoreNLP(props)
}

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Stop Words
“the boy car be different color”
“boy car different color”

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Parse
Raw Data
Clean
Term-
Document
Matrix
SVD
Interpret
Results

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Tail Monkey Algorithm Scala
Document 1 1.5 1.8
Document 2 2.0 4.3
Document 3 1.4 6.7
Document 4 1.6
Document 5 1.2
Term-Document Matrix

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tf-idf
• (Term Frequency) * (Inverse Document Frequency)
• tf(document, word) = # times word appears in document
• idf(word) = 1 / (# documents that contain word)

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val rowVectors: RDD[Vector] = ...

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Parse
Raw Data
Clean
Term-
Document
Matrix
SVD
Interpret
Results

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Singular Value Decomposition
• Factors matrix into the product of three matrices: U, S, and V
• m = # documents
• n = # terms
• U is m x n
• S is n x n
• V is n x n

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Low Rank Approximation
• Account for synonymy by condensing related terms.
• Account for polysemy by placing less weight on terms that have multiple meanings.
• Throw out noise.
SVD can find the rank-k approximation that has the lowest Frobenius distance from the
original matrix.

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Singular Value Decomposition
• Factors matrix into the product of three matrices: U, S, and V
• m = # documents
• n = # terms
• k = # concepts
• U is m x n
• S is k x k
• V is k x n

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Docs:
Terms:U S V

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Docs:
Terms:U S V

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rowVectors.cache()
val mat = new RowMatrix(rowVectors)
val k = 1000
val svd = mat.computeSVD(k, computeU=true)

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Parse
Raw Data
Clean
Term-
Document
Matrix
SVD
Interpret
Results

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What are the top “concepts”?
I.e. what dimensions in term-space and document-space explain most of the variance of
the data?

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Docs:
Terms:U S V

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U S V

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U S V

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def topTermsInConcept(concept: Int, numTerms: Int)
: Seq[(String, Double)] = {
val v = svd.V.toBreezeMatrix
val termWeights = v(::, k).toArray.zipWithIndex
val sorted = termWeights.sortBy(-_._1)
sorted.take(numTerms)
}

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def topDocsInConcept(concept: Int, numDocs: Int)
: Seq[Seq[(String, Double)]] = {
val u = svd.U
val docWeights =
u.rows.map(_.toArray(concept)).zipWithUniqueId()
docWeights.top(numDocs)
}

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Concept 1
Terms: department, commune, communes, insee, france, see, also,
southwestern, oise, marne, moselle, manche, eure, aisne, isère
Docs: Communes in France, Saint-Mard, Meurthe-et-Moselle,
Saint-Firmin, Meurthe-et-Moselle, Saint-Clément, Meurthe-et-Moselle,
Saint-Sardos, Lot-et-Garonne, Saint-Urcisse, Lot-et-Garonne, Saint-Sernin,
Lot-et-Garonne, Saint-Robert, Lot-et-Garonne, Saint-Léon, Lot-et-Garonne,
Saint-Astier, Lot-et-Garonne

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Concept 2
Terms: genus, species, moth, family, lepidoptera, beetle, bulbophyllum,
snail, database, natural, find, geometridae, reference, museum, noctuidae
Docs: Chelonia (genus), Palea (genus), Argiope (genus), Sphingini,
Cribrilinidae, Tahla (genus), Gigartinales, Parapodia (genus),
Alpina (moth), Arycanda (moth)

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Querying
• Given a set of terms, find the closest documents in the latent space

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Reconstructed Matrix
(U * S * V)
Doc
Term

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def topTermsForTerm(
normalizedVS : BDenseMatrix[Double],
termId: Int): Seq[(Double, Int)] = {
val rowVec = new BDenseVector[Double](row(normalizedVS, termId).toArray)
val termScores = (normalizedVS * rowVec).toArray.zipWithIndex
termScores.sortBy(- _._1).take(10)
}
val VS = multiplyByDiagonalMatrix(svd.V, svd.s)
val normalizedVS = rowsNormalized(VS)
topTermsForTerm(normalizedVS, id, termIds)

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printRelevantTerms("radiohead")
radiohead 0.9999999999999993
lyrically 0.8837403315233519
catchy 0.8780717902060333
riff 0.861326571452104
lyricsthe 0.8460798060853993
lyric 0.8434937575368959
upbeat 0.8410212279939793
Term Similarity

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printRelevantTerms("algorithm")
algorithm 1.000000000000002
heuristic 0.8773199836391916
compute 0.8561015487853708
constraint 0.8370707630657652
optimization 0.8331940333186296
complexity 0.823738607119692
algorithmic 0.8227315888559854
Term Similarity

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(algorithm,1.000000000000002), (heuristic,0.8773199836391916),
(compute,0.8561015487853708), (constraint,0.8370707630657652),
(optimization,0.8331940333186296), (complexity,0.823738607119692),
(algorithmic,0.8227315888559854), (iterative,0.822364922633442),
(recursive,0.8176921180556759), (minimization,0.8160188481409465)

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def topDocsForTerm( US: RowMatrix, V: Matrix, termId: Int)
: Seq[(Double, Long)] = {
val rowArr = row(V, termId).toArray
val rowVec = Matrices.dense(termRowArr.length, 1, termRowArr)
val docScores = US.multiply(termRowVec)
val allDocWeights = docScores.rows.map( _.toArray(0)).
zipWithUniqueId()
allDocWeights.top( 10)
}

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printRelevantDocs("fir")
Silver tree 0.006292909647173194
See the forest for the trees 0.004785047583508223
Eucalyptus tree 0.004592837783089319
Sequoia tree 0.004497446632469554
Willow tree 0.004429936059594164
Coniferous tree 0.004381572286629475
Tulip Tree 0.004374705020233878
Document Similarity

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• https://github.com/sryza/aas/tree/master/ch06-lsa
• https://spark.apache.org/docs/latest/mllib-dimensionality-reduction.html
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More detail?

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Thank you
@sandysifting