Template:Model card ORES article topic

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Model Information Hub
Model creator(s)	Aaron Halfaker (User:EpochFail) and Amir Sarabadani
Model owner(s)	WMF Machine Learning Team (ml@wikimediafoundation.org)
Model interface	Ores homepage
Code	drafttopic Github, ORES training data, and ORES model binaries
Uses PII	No
In production?	Yes
Which projects?	{{{language}}} {{{project}}}
This model uses article text to predict the likelihood that the article belongs to a set of topics.

Motivation

How can we predict what general topic an article is in? Answering this question is useful for various analyses of {{{project}}} dynamics. However, it is difficult to group a very diverse range of {{{project}}} articles into coherent, consistent topics manually.

This model, part of the ORES suite of models, analyzes an article to predict its likelihood of belonging to a set of topics. Similar models (though not necessarily with the same performance level or topics, are deployed across about a dozen other projects. There is also a language agnostic article topic model.

This model may be useful for high-level analyses of {{{project}}} dynamics (pageviews, article quality, edit trends) and filtering articles.

Users and uses

Use this model for

• high-level analyses of {{{project}}} dynamics such as pageview, article quality, or edit trends — e.g. How are pageview dynamics different between the physics and biology categories?
• filtering to relevant articles — e.g. filter articles only to those in the music category.

Don't use this model for

• definitively establishing what topic an article pertains to
• automated editing of articles or topics without a human in the loop

Current uses

This model is a part of ORES, and generally accessible via API. It is used for high-level analysis of {{{project}}}, platform research, and other on-wiki tasks.

Example API call:

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Ethical considerations, caveats, and recommendations

• This model was trained on data that is now several years old (from mid-2020). Underlying data drift may skew model outputs.
• This model uses word2vec as a training feature. Word2vec, like other natural language embeddings, encodes the linguistic biases of underlying datasets — along the lines of gender, race, ethnicity, religion etc. Since Wikipedia has known biases in its text, this model may encode and at times reproduce those biases.
• This model has highly variable performance across different topics — consult the test statistics below to get a sense of inter-topic performance.

Model

Performance

Test data confusion matrix: {{{confusion_matrix}}}

Test data sample rates: {{{sample_rates}}}

Test data performance: {{{performance}}}

Implementation

Model architecture

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Output schema

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Example input and output

Input:

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Output:

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Data

Data pipeline

The data to train was fetched from a set of revision IDs. Then various pieces of information about the revision were extracted using automated processes, and the revision text was fed into word2vec to get an article embedding. Finally, labels are derived from the mid-level WikiProject categories that the article is associated with.

Training data

Training data was automatically and randomly separated from test data during training using the drafttopic git repository (which trains both drafttopic and articletopic models).

Test data

Test data was automatically and randomly split off from train data using the drafttopic git repository (which trains both drafttopic and articletopic models). The model then makes a prediction on that data, which is compared to the underlying ground truth to calculate performance statistics.

Licenses

• Code: MIT license
• Model: MIT license

Citation

Cite this model card as:

@misc{
  Triedman_Bazira_2023_{{{language}}}_{{{project}}}_article_topic,
  title={ {{{language}}} {{{project}}} article topic model card },
  author={ Triedman, Harold and Bazira, Kevin },
  year={ 2023 },
  url={ https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Model_card_ORES_article_topic }
}