Textual Data Distributions: Kullback Leibler Textual Distributions Contrasts on GPT-2 Generated Texts, with Supervised, Unsupervised Learning on Vaccine & Market Topics & Sentiment

Abstract

Efficient textual data distributions (TDD) alignment and generation are open research problems in textual analytics and NLP. It is presently difficult to parsimoniously and methodologically confirm that two or more natural language datasets belong to similar distributions, and to identify the extent to which textual data possess alignment. This study focuses on addressing a segment of the broader problem described above by applying multiple supervised and unsupervised machine learning (ML) methods to explore the behaviour of TDD by (i) topical alignment, and (ii) by sentiment alignment. Furthermore we use multiple text generation methods including finetuned GPT-2, to generate text by topic and by sentiment. Finally we develop a unique process driven variation of Kullback-Leibler divergence (KLD) application to TDD, named "KL Textual Distributions Contrasts" (KL-TDC) to identify the alignment of machine generated textual corpora with naturally occurring textual corpora. This study thus identifies a unique approach for generating and validating TDD by topic and sentiment, which can be used to help address sparse data problems and other research, practice and classroom situations in need of artificially generated topic or sentiment aligned textual data.

Artificially Intelligent Readers: An Adaptive Framework for Original Handwritten Numerical Digits Recognition with OCR Methods

“…We are hopeful that such adaptive OCR solutions would be an important part of the rapidly advancing artificial intelligence ecosystems worldwide. Currently, most NLP research and practice use machine-readable typed data and associated textual data distributions [56]. It would be very useful to develop OCR solutions for handwritten documents to create a seamless integration with NLP solutions, such as sentiment analysis and NLP-based socioeconomic modeling [57][58][59].…”