Competing Topic Naming Conventions in Quora: Predicting Appropriate Topic Merges and Winning Topics from Millions of Topic Pairs
Table 4: Results of ablation experiments.
['Feature Model', 'Precision', 'Recall', 'F-Score']
Ablation experiments: To understand the importance of individual feature types, we perform ablation experiments by considering different combination of feature types for the classification. The combination of question content and the ontology feature types seems to produce results, very close to the best results, obtained by taking all features. Feature importance The most discriminatory feature is the presence of topic name in the question text of the other topic. Also Quora topic ontology features have higher ranks.