This article demonstrates text classification using the
tidymodels framework. Data are
downloaded via the gutenbergr
package and include 5 books written by either Emily Brontë or Charlotte
Brontë. The goal is to predict the author from the words in a line, that
is, the probability of a line being written by one sister rather than
the other.
library(dplyr)#>7 collapsed lines
#> Attaching package: 'dplyr'#> The following objects are masked from 'package:stats':#>#> filter, lag#> The following objects are masked from 'package:base':#>#> intersect, setdiff, setequal, unionlibrary(ggplot2)library(tidyr)library(stringr)library(tidytext)library(gutenbergr)The cleaned books dataset contains lines as individual rows.
mirror_url <- "http://mirrors.xmission.com/gutenberg/"
books <- gutenberg_works(author %in% c("Brontë, Emily", "Brontë, Charlotte")) %>% gutenberg_download(meta_fields = c("title", "author"), mirror = mirror_url) %>% transmute(title, author = if_else(author == "Brontë, Emily", "Emily Brontë", "Charlotte Brontë" ) %>% factor(), line_index = row_number(), text )books#> # A tibble: 59,283 × 413 collapsed lines
#> title author line_index text#> <chr> <fct> <int> <chr>#> 1 Wuthering Heights Emily Brontë 1 "Wuthering Heights"#> 2 Wuthering Heights Emily Brontë 2 ""#> 3 Wuthering Heights Emily Brontë 3 "by Emily Brontë"#> 4 Wuthering Heights Emily Brontë 4 ""#> 5 Wuthering Heights Emily Brontë 5 ""#> 6 Wuthering Heights Emily Brontë 6 ""#> 7 Wuthering Heights Emily Brontë 7 ""#> 8 Wuthering Heights Emily Brontë 8 "CHAPTER I"#> 9 Wuthering Heights Emily Brontë 9 ""#> 10 Wuthering Heights Emily Brontë 10 ""#> # ℹ 59,273 more rowsTo obtain the tidy text structure illustrated in Text Mining with
R, I use unnest_tokens() to tokenize
the text and remove all the stop words. I also removed characters like
', 's, ' and whitespace to get valid column names after widening.
It turns out this also served as a sort of stemming (heathcliff’s
becomes heathcliff)! Then low-frequency words (less than 0.05% of an
author’s total word count) are removed. The cutoff may be a little too
high if you plot the histogram, but I really need it to save computing
effort on my laptop :sweat_smile:.
clean_books <- books %>% unnest_tokens(word, text) %>% anti_join(stop_words) %>% filter(!str_detect(word, "^\\d+$")) %>% mutate(word = str_remove_all(word, "_|'s|'|\\s"))#> Joining with `by = join_by(word)`
total_words <- clean_books %>% count(author, name = "total")
tidy_books <- clean_books %>% left_join(total_words) %>% group_by(author, total, word) %>% filter((n() / total) > 0.0005) %>% ungroup()#> Joining with `by = join_by(author)`Comparing Word Frequency
Before building a predictive model, let’s do some EDA to see how differently the sisters use particular words. This also sheds light on what to expect from the text classification. We will compare word frequency (proportion) between the two sisters.
tidy_books %>% group_by(author, total) %>% count(word) %>% mutate(prop = n / total) %>% ungroup() %>% select(-total, -n) %>% pivot_wider( names_from = author, values_from = prop, values_fill = list(prop = 0) ) %>% ggplot(aes( x = `Charlotte Brontë`, y = `Emily Brontë`, color = abs(`Emily Brontë` - `Charlotte Brontë`) )) + geom_jitter(width = 0.001, height = 0.001, alpha = 0.2, size = 2.5) + geom_abline(color = "gray40", lty = 2) + geom_text(aes(label = word), check_overlap = TRUE, vjust = 1.5, size = 7.5) + scale_color_gradient(low = "darkslategray4", high = "gray75") + scale_x_continuous(labels = scales::label_percent()) + scale_y_continuous(labels = scales::label_percent()) + theme(legend.position = "none") + coord_cartesian(xlim = c(0, NA)) + theme( text = element_text(size = 18), plot.title.position = "plot" )
Words that fall on or near the dotted line (such as “home”, “head”, and “half”) are used with similar frequency by both sisters. In contrast, words positioned far from the line indicate a preference by one author over the other. For instance, “heathcliff”, “linton”, and “catherine” appear more frequently in one sister’s works compared to the other’s.
What does this plot tell us? Judged only by word frequency, there are a number of words that are quite characteristic of Emily Brontë (upper left corner). Charlotte, on the other hand, has few representative words (bottom right corner). We will investigate this further in the model.
Modeling
Data Preprocessing
There are 430 features (words) and 32029 observations in total. Approximately 18% of the responses are 1 (Emily Brontë).
tidy_books %>% count(author) %>% mutate(prop = n / sum(n))#> # A tibble: 2 × 3#> author n prop#> <fct> <int> <dbl>#> 1 Charlotte Brontë 40191 0.724#> 2 Emily Brontë 15310 0.276Now it’s time to widen the data into a structure suitable for modeling, similar to a document-term matrix, with each row being a line and each column a word count.
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model_df <- tidy_books %>% count(line_index, word) %>% pivot_wider( names_from = word, values_from = n, values_fill = list(n = 0) ) %>% left_join(books, by = c("line_index" = "line_index")) %>% select(-title, -text)
model_df#> # A tibble: 32,029 × 43219 collapsed lines
#> line_index heights wuthering chapter returned visit heathcliff black eyes#> <int> <int> <int> <int> <int> <int> <int> <int> <int>#> 1 1 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0#> 2 8 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0#> 3 11 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 0#> 4 15 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0#> 5 17 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1#> 6 19 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0#> 7 22 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0#> 8 24 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0#> 9 26 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0#> 10 27 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0#> # ℹ 32,019 more rows#> # ℹ 423 more variables: heart <int>, fingers <int>, answer <int>, sir <int>,#> # hope <int>, grange <int>, heard <int>, thrushcross <int>,#> # interrupted <int>, walk <int>, closed <int>, uttered <int>, gate <int>,#> # words <int>, hand <int>, entered <int>, joseph <int>, bring <int>,#> # horse <int>, suppose <int>, nay <int>, dinner <int>, `heathcliff’s` <int>,#> # times <int>, guess <int>, wind <int>, house <int>, set <int>, …Train a Penalized Logistic Regression Model
Split the data into a training set and a testing set.
book_split <- initial_split(model_df)book_train <- training(book_split)book_test <- testing(book_split)Specify an L1-penalized logistic model, center and scale all predictors,
and combine them into a workflow object.
logistic_spec <- logistic_reg(penalty = 0.05, mixture = 1) %>% set_engine("glmnet")
book_rec <- recipe(author ~ ., data = book_train) %>% update_role(line_index, new_role = "ID") %>% step_zv(all_predictors()) %>% step_normalize(all_predictors())
book_wf <- workflow() %>% add_model(logistic_spec) %>% add_recipe(book_rec)
initial_fit <- book_wf %>% fit(data = book_train)initial_fit is a simple fitted regression model without any
hyper-parameters. By default, glmnet calls for 100 values of lambda
even if I specify lambda = 0.05, so the extracted results aren’t that
helpful.
initial_fit %>% extract_fit_parsnip() %>% tidy()#>19 collapsed lines
#> Attaching package: 'Matrix'#> The following objects are masked from 'package:tidyr':#>#> expand, pack, unpack#> Loaded glmnet 4.1-7#> # A tibble: 431 × 3#> term estimate penalty#> <chr> <dbl> <dbl>#> 1 (Intercept) -1.14 0.05#> 2 heights 0 0.05#> 3 wuthering 0 0.05#> 4 chapter 0 0.05#> 5 returned 0 0.05#> 6 visit 0 0.05#> 7 heathcliff 0.153 0.05#> 8 black 0 0.05#> 9 eyes 0 0.05#> 10 heart 0 0.05#> # ℹ 421 more rowsWe can make predictions with initial_fit anyway, and examine metrics
like overall accuracy.
initial_predict <- predict(initial_fit, book_test) %>% bind_cols(predict(initial_fit, book_test, type = "prob")) %>% bind_cols(book_test %>% select(author, line_index))
initial_predict#> # A tibble: 8,008 × 514 collapsed lines
#> .pred_class .pred_Charlotte Bron…¹ `.pred_Emily Brontë` author line_index#> <fct> <dbl> <dbl> <fct> <int>#> 1 Charlotte Bron… 0.766 0.234 Emily… 11#> 2 Charlotte Bron… 0.766 0.234 Emily… 26#> 3 Charlotte Bron… 0.766 0.234 Emily… 29#> 4 Charlotte Bron… 0.766 0.234 Emily… 36#> 5 Charlotte Bron… 0.766 0.234 Emily… 49#> 6 Charlotte Bron… 0.766 0.234 Emily… 74#> 7 Charlotte Bron… 0.766 0.234 Emily… 78#> 8 Charlotte Bron… 0.766 0.234 Emily… 79#> 9 Charlotte Bron… 0.766 0.234 Emily… 88#> 10 Charlotte Bron… 0.766 0.234 Emily… 110#> # ℹ 7,998 more rows#> # ℹ abbreviated name: ¹`.pred_Charlotte Brontë`How good is our initial model?
initial_predict %>% accuracy(truth = author, estimate = .pred_class)#> # A tibble: 1 × 3#> .metric .estimator .estimate#> <chr> <chr> <dbl>#> 1 accuracy binary 0.771Nearly 84% of all predictions are right. This isn’t a very satisfactory
result since “Charlotte Brontë” accounts for 81% of author, making our
model only slightly better than a classifier that assigns “Charlotte
Brontë” to every line.
Tuning lambda
We can find an appropriate penalty by tuning the model with resampling.
logistic_wf_tune <- book_wf %>% update_model(logistic_spec %>% set_args(penalty = tune()))
lambda_grid <- grid_regular(penalty(), levels = 100)book_folds <- vfold_cv(book_train, v = 10)Here we build a set of 10 cross-validation resamples and set
levels = 100 to try 100 choices of lambda ranging from 0 to 1. Then we
tune the lambda grid with the resamples.
logistic_results <- logistic_wf_tune %>% tune_grid(resamples = book_folds, grid = lambda_grid)We can plot the model metrics across different choices of lambda.
logistic_results %>% collect_metrics() %>% mutate( lower_bound = mean - std_err, upper_bound = mean + std_err ) %>% ggplot(aes(penalty, mean)) + geom_line(aes(color = .metric), size = 1.5, show.legend = FALSE) + geom_errorbar(aes(ymin = lower_bound, ymax = upper_bound)) + facet_wrap(~.metric, nrow = 2, scales = "free") + labs(y = NULL, x = expression(lambda))#> Warning: Using `size` aesthetic for lines was deprecated in ggplot2 3.4.0.#> ℹ Please use `linewidth` instead.
OK, both metrics decrease monotonically as lambda increases, but change little once lambda is greater than 0.1, which is essentially random guessing based on each author’s share of the data. The model is generally better with a small penalty, suggesting that most predictors are fairly important to the model. We may still lean towards a larger penalty with slightly worse performance, because it leads to a simpler model. So we may want to choose lambda from the top rows of the following data frame.
top_models <- logistic_results %>% show_best(metric = "roc_auc", n = 100) %>% arrange(desc(penalty)) %>% filter(mean > 0.9)
top_models#> # A tibble: 79 × 713 collapsed lines
#> penalty .metric .estimator mean n std_err .config#> <dbl> <chr> <chr> <dbl> <int> <dbl> <chr>#> 1 0.00756 roc_auc binary 0.916 10 0.00147 Preprocessor1_Model079#> 2 0.00599 roc_auc binary 0.921 10 0.00122 Preprocessor1_Model078#> 3 0.00475 roc_auc binary 0.923 10 0.00120 Preprocessor1_Model077#> 4 0.00376 roc_auc binary 0.925 10 0.00122 Preprocessor1_Model076#> 5 0.00298 roc_auc binary 0.926 10 0.00117 Preprocessor1_Model075#> 6 0.00236 roc_auc binary 0.926 10 0.00133 Preprocessor1_Model074#> 7 0.00187 roc_auc binary 0.927 10 0.00130 Preprocessor1_Model073#> 8 0.00148 roc_auc binary 0.927 10 0.00126 Preprocessor1_Model072#> 9 0.00118 roc_auc binary 0.927 10 0.00118 Preprocessor1_Model071#> 10 0.000933 roc_auc binary 0.927 10 0.00119 Preprocessor1_Model070#> # ℹ 69 more rowsselect_best() would return the 9th row, with lambda = 0.000586, for
its highest performance on roc_auc. But I’ll stick to the principle of
parsimony and pick $\lambda \approx 0.00376$ at the cost of a 0.005 drop
in roc_auc and a 0.001 drop in accuracy.
logistic_results %>% select_best(metric = "roc_auc")#> # A tibble: 1 × 2#> penalty .config#> <dbl> <chr>#> 1 0.000739 Preprocessor1_Model069
book_wf_final <- finalize_workflow(logistic_wf_tune, parameters = top_models %>% slice(1))Now the model specification in the workflow is filled with the picked lambda:
book_wf_final %>% extract_spec_parsnip()#> Logistic Regression Model Specification (classification)6 collapsed lines
#>#> Main Arguments:#> penalty = 0.00756463327554629#> mixture = 1#>#> Computational engine: glmnetNext, fit the best model on the training set and evaluate it against the test set.
logistic_final <- last_fit(book_wf_final, split = book_split)
logistic_final %>% collect_metrics()#> # A tibble: 3 × 45 collapsed lines
#> .metric .estimator .estimate .config#> <chr> <chr> <dbl> <chr>#> 1 accuracy binary 0.899 Preprocessor1_Model1#> 2 roc_auc binary 0.915 Preprocessor1_Model1#> 3 brier_class binary 0.0895 Preprocessor1_Model1logistic_final %>% collect_predictions() %>% roc_curve(truth = author, `.pred_Emily Brontë`) %>% autoplot()
The accuracy of our logistic model rises by roughly 9% to 93.8%, with
roc_auc at nearly 0.904. This is pretty good!
We can also check the confusion matrix. The model did well at identifying Charlotte Brontë (low false positive rate, high sensitivity), yet suffers a relatively high false negative rate (it mistakenly identifies 39% of Emily Brontë as Charlotte Brontë, aka low specificity). This is partly due to class imbalance (four of the five books were written by Charlotte).
logistic_final %>% collect_predictions() %>% conf_mat(truth = author, estimate = .pred_class)#> Truth#> Prediction Charlotte Brontë Emily Brontë#> Charlotte Brontë 6054 808#> Emily Brontë 2 1144To examine the effect of predictors, we again use fit and
pull_workflow to extract the model fit. Variable importance plots
implemented in the vip
package provide an intuitive way to visualize the importance of
predictors, using the absolute value of the t-statistic as a measure of
VI.
library(vip)#>#> Attaching package: 'vip'#> The following object is masked from 'package:utils':#>#> vi
logistic_vi <- book_wf_final %>% fit(book_train) %>% extract_fit_parsnip() %>% vi(lambda = top_models[1, ]$penalty) %>% group_by(Sign) %>% slice_max(order_by = abs(Importance), n = 30) %>% ungroup() %>% mutate(Sign = if_else(Sign == "POS", "More Emily Brontë", "More Charlotte Brontë" ))
logistic_vi %>% ggplot(aes( y = reorder_within(Variable, abs(Importance), Sign), x = Importance )) + geom_col(aes(fill = Sign), show.legend = FALSE, alpha = 0.6 ) + scale_y_reordered() + facet_wrap(~Sign, nrow = 1, scales = "free") + labs( title = "How word usage classifies Brontë sisters", x = NULL, y = NULL ) + theme( axis.text = element_text(size = 18), plot.title = element_text(size = 24), plot.title.position = "plot" )
Is it cheating to use character names to classify authors? Next time, I should consider including more books and removing names.
Note that variable importance in the left panel is generally smaller than in the right one, which matches the word frequency plot: Emily Brontë has more and stronger characteristic words.