Classification of text documents: using a MLComp dataset

This is an example showing how the scikit-learn can be used to classify documents by topics using a bag-of-words approach. This example uses a scipy.sparse matrix to store the features instead of standard numpy arrays.

The dataset used in this example is the 20 newsgroups dataset and should be downloaded from the http://mlcomp.org (free registration required):

http://mlcomp.org/datasets/379

Once downloaded unzip the archive somewhere on your filesystem. For instance in:

% mkdir -p ~/data/mlcomp
% cd  ~/data/mlcomp
% unzip /path/to/dataset-379-20news-18828_XXXXX.zip

You should get a folder ~/data/mlcomp/379 with a file named metadata and subfolders raw, train and test holding the text documents organized by newsgroups.

Then set the MLCOMP_DATASETS_HOME environment variable pointing to the root folder holding the uncompressed archive:

% export MLCOMP_DATASETS_HOME="~/data/mlcomp"

Then you are ready to run this example using your favorite python shell:

% ipython examples/mlcomp_sparse_document_classification.py

Python source code: mlcomp_sparse_document_classification.py

# Author: Olivier Grisel <olivier.grisel@ensta.org>
# License: BSD 3 clause

from __future__ import print_function

from time import time
import sys
import os
import numpy as np
import scipy.sparse as sp
import pylab as pl

from sklearn.datasets import load_mlcomp
from sklearn.feature_extraction.text import TfidfVectorizer
from sklearn.linear_model import SGDClassifier
from sklearn.metrics import confusion_matrix
from sklearn.metrics import classification_report
from sklearn.naive_bayes import MultinomialNB


print(__doc__)

if 'MLCOMP_DATASETS_HOME' not in os.environ:
    print("MLCOMP_DATASETS_HOME not set; please follow the above instructions")
    sys.exit(0)

# Load the training set
print("Loading 20 newsgroups training set... ")
news_train = load_mlcomp('20news-18828', 'train')
print(news_train.DESCR)
print("%d documents" % len(news_train.filenames))
print("%d categories" % len(news_train.target_names))

print("Extracting features from the dataset using a sparse vectorizer")
t0 = time()
vectorizer = TfidfVectorizer(encoding='latin1')
X_train = vectorizer.fit_transform((open(f).read()
                                    for f in news_train.filenames))
print("done in %fs" % (time() - t0))
print("n_samples: %d, n_features: %d" % X_train.shape)
assert sp.issparse(X_train)
y_train = news_train.target

print("Loading 20 newsgroups test set... ")
news_test = load_mlcomp('20news-18828', 'test')
t0 = time()
print("done in %fs" % (time() - t0))

print("Predicting the labels of the test set...")
print("%d documents" % len(news_test.filenames))
print("%d categories" % len(news_test.target_names))

print("Extracting features from the dataset using the same vectorizer")
t0 = time()
X_test = vectorizer.transform((open(f).read() for f in news_test.filenames))
y_test = news_test.target
print("done in %fs" % (time() - t0))
print("n_samples: %d, n_features: %d" % X_test.shape)


###############################################################################
# Benchmark classifiers
def benchmark(clf_class, params, name):
    print("parameters:", params)
    t0 = time()
    clf = clf_class(**params).fit(X_train, y_train)
    print("done in %fs" % (time() - t0))

    if hasattr(clf, 'coef_'):
        print("Percentage of non zeros coef: %f"
              % (np.mean(clf.coef_ != 0) * 100))
    print("Predicting the outcomes of the testing set")
    t0 = time()
    pred = clf.predict(X_test)
    print("done in %fs" % (time() - t0))

    print("Classification report on test set for classifier:")
    print(clf)
    print()
    print(classification_report(y_test, pred,
                                target_names=news_test.target_names))

    cm = confusion_matrix(y_test, pred)
    print("Confusion matrix:")
    print(cm)

    # Show confusion matrix
    pl.matshow(cm)
    pl.title('Confusion matrix of the %s classifier' % name)
    pl.colorbar()


print("Testbenching a linear classifier...")
parameters = {
    'loss': 'hinge',
    'penalty': 'l2',
    'n_iter': 50,
    'alpha': 0.00001,
    'fit_intercept': True,
}

benchmark(SGDClassifier, parameters, 'SGD')

print("Testbenching a MultinomialNB classifier...")
parameters = {'alpha': 0.01}

benchmark(MultinomialNB, parameters, 'MultinomialNB')

pl.show()