LLM над “Искусством аттриционной войны: Уроки войны России против Украины”

Введение

Этот блог пост использует различные запросы к Большим Языковым Моделям (БЯМ) для суммаризации статьи “Искусство аттриционной войны: Уроки войны России против Украины” от Алекса Вершинина.

Замечание: Мы тоже будем пользоваться сокращением “LLM” (для “Large Language Models”).

В этой статье для Королевского института объединенных служб (RUSI), Алекс Вершинин обсуждает необходимость для Запада пересмотреть свою военную стратегию в отношении аттрициона в предвидении затяжных конфликтов. Статья противопоставляет аттриционную и маневренную войну, подчеркивая важность промышленной мощности, генерации сил и экономической устойчивости в победе в затяжных войнах.

Эта (полученная с помощью LLM) иерархическая диаграмма хорошо суммирует статью:

Примечание: Мы планируем использовать этот пост/статью в качестве ссылки в предстоящем посте/статье с соответствующей математической моделью
(на основе Системной динамики.)

Структура поста:

  1. Темы
    Табличное разбиение содержания.
  2. Ментальная карта
    Структура содержания и связи концепций.
  3. Суммарное изложение, идеи и рекомендации
    Основная помощь в понимании.
  4. Модель системной динамики
    Как сделать данный наблюдения операциональными?

Темы

Вместо суммарного изложения рассмотрите эту таблицу тем:

темасодержание
ВведениеСтатья начинается с подчеркивания необходимости для Запада подготовиться к аттриционной войне, контрастируя это с предпочтением коротких, решающих конфликтов.
Понимание Аттриционной ВойныОпределяет аттриционную войну и подчеркивает ее отличия от маневренной войны, акцентируя важность промышленной мощности и способности заменять потери.
Экономическое ИзмерениеОбсуждает, как экономика и промышленные мощности играют ключевую роль в поддержании войны аттрициона, с примерами из Второй мировой войны.
Генерация СилИсследует, как различные военные доктрины и структуры, такие как НАТО и Советский Союз, влияют на способность генерировать и поддерживать силы в аттриционной войне.
Военное ИзмерениеДетализирует военные операции и стратегии, подходящие для аттриционной войны, включая важность ударов над маневрами и фазы таких конфликтов.
Современная ВойнаИсследует сложности современной войны, включая интеграцию различных систем и вызовы координации наступательных операций.
Последствия для Боевых ОперацийОписывает, как аттриционная война влияет на глубинные удары и стратегическое поражение способности противника регенерировать боевую мощь.
ЗаключениеРезюмирует ключевые моменты о том, как вести и выигрывать аттриционную войну, подчеркивая важность стратегического терпения и тщательного планирования.

Ментальная карта

Вот ментальная карта показывает структуру статьи и суммирует связи между представленными концепциями:


Суммарное изложение, идеи и рекомендации

СУММАРНОЕ ИЗЛОЖЕНИЕ

Алекс Вершинин в “Искусстве аттриционной войны: Уроки войны России против Украины” для Королевского института объединенных служб обсуждает необходимость для Запада пересмотреть свою военную стратегию в отношении аттрициона в предвидении затяжных конфликтов.
Статья противопоставляет аттриционную и маневренную войну, подчеркивая важность промышленной мощности, генерации сил и экономической устойчивости в победе в затяжных войнах.

ИДЕИ:

  • Аттриционные войны требуют уникальной стратегии, сосредоточенной на силе, а не на местности.
  • Западная военная стратегия традиционно отдает предпочтение быстрым, решающим битвам, не готова к затяжному аттриционному конфликту.
  • Войны аттрициона со временем выравнивают шансы между армиями с различными начальными возможностями.
  • Победа в аттриционных войнах больше зависит от экономической силы и промышленной мощности, чем от военного мастерства.
  • Интеграция гражданских товаров в военное производство облегчает быстрое вооружение в аттриционных войнах.
  • Западные экономики сталкиваются с трудностями в быстром масштабировании военного производства из-за мирного эффективности и аутсорсинга.
  • Аттриционная война требует массового и быстрого расширения армий, что требует изменения стратегий производства и обучения.
  • Эффективность военной доктрины НАТО ухудшается в аттриционной войне из-за времени, необходимого для замены опытных некомиссированных офицеров (NCOs).
  • Советская модель генерации сил, с ее массовыми резервами и офицерским управлением, более адаптируема к аттриционной войне.
  • Соединение профессиональных сил с массово мобилизованными войсками создает сбалансированную стратегию для аттриционной войны.
  • Современная война интегрирует сложные системы, требующие продвинутого планирования и координации, что затрудняет быстрые наступательные маневры.
  • Аттриционные стратегии сосредоточены на истощении способности противника регенерировать боевую мощь, защищая свою собственную.
  • Начальная фаза аттриционной войны подчеркивает удерживающие действия и наращивание боевой мощи, а не завоевание территории.
  • Наступательные операции в аттриционной войне следует откладывать до тех пор, пока резервы и промышленная мощность противника достаточно не истощены.
  • Глубинные удары по инфраструктуре и производственным возможностям противника имеют решающее значение в аттриционной войне.
  • Аттриционная война требует стратегического терпения и акцента на оборонительных операциях для подготовки к будущим наступлениям.
  • Ожидание Запада коротких, решающих конфликтов не соответствует реальности потенциальных аттриционных войн с равными противниками.
  • Признание важности экономических стратегий и промышленной мобилизации ключево для подготовки к и выигрышу затяжного конфликта.
  • Информационные операции могут манипулировать движениями и распределением ресурсов противника в свою выгоду в аттриционной войне.

ЦИТАТЫ:

  • “Аттриционные войны требуют своего ‘Искусства войны’ и ведутся с ‘подходом, сосредоточенным на силе’.”
  • “Та сторона, которая принимает аттриционный характер войны и сосредотачивается на уничтожении вражеских сил, а не на завоевании территории, скорее всего, победит.”
  • “Войны аттрициона выигрываются экономиками, позволяющими массовую мобилизацию армий через их промышленные сектора.”
  • “Проще и быстрее производить большое количество дешевого оружия и боеприпасов, особенно если их подкомпоненты взаимозаменяемы с гражданскими товарами.”
  • “Эффективность военной доктрины НАТО ухудшается в аттриционной войне

Модель системной динамики

В этом разделе мы показываем модель системной динамики, полученную с помощью запроса:

Сгенерируйте модель системной динамики для войны на истощение, описанной в следующей статье:

Описание модели, полученное с помощью LLM, имеет смысл, но для получения соответствующей рабочей модели требуются дополнительные запросы к LLM и/или (математическое) программирование и моделирование.

Результат LLM представлен ниже.


Разработка модели системной динамики для войны на истощение, описанной в предоставленном тексте, включает создание структуры, которая улавливает ключевые динамики истощения, генерации сил, экономической поддержки и влияния промышленной мощности на ведение войны. Эта модель будет сосредоточена на взаимодействиях между этими элементами для понимания долгосрочных результатов войны на истощение, особенно в контексте российской войны на Украине, как обсуждаетс

Компоненты модели системной динамики:

  1. Запасы: Это накопления в системе, которые изменяются со временем. Для модели войны на истощение актуальные запасы могут включать:
    • Военный персонал: Сюда входят как высококвалифицированные профессиональные солдаты, так и мобилизованные или призванные военнослужащие низкого уровня.
    • Промышленная мощность: Способность производить военное оборудование, которое может быть разделено на высокотехнологичные сложные системы и массово производимые предметы низкого уровня.
    • Экономические ресурсы: Это финансовые и материальные ресурсы, доступные для поддержки военного производства и операций.
    • Боевая мощь: Общая эффективность и сила военных сил, на которую влияют как количество, так и качество сил и оборудования.
  2. Потоки: Это скорости, которые изменяют запасы, представляя процессы внутри системы.
    • Набор и обучение: Добавление личного состава к запасу военного персонала.
    • Скорость истощения: Уменьшение военного персонала через боевые потери.
    • Скорость производства: Скорость, с которой промышленная мощность производит военное оборудование.
    • Распределение ресурсов: Поток экономических ресурсов в военное производство и операции.
  3. Петли обратной связи: Эти петли помогают понять, как разные части системы влияют друг на друга, усиливая или уравновешивая динамику системы.
    • Усиливающая петля (R1): Увеличение промышленной мощности приводит к большему количеству военного оборудования, что повышает боевую мощь, потенциально приводя к военному успеху, который оправдывает дальнейшие инвестиции в промышленную мощность.
    • Уравновешивающая петля (B1): Высокие скорости истощения сокращают военный персонал, снижая боевую мощь, что может привести к переоценке военных стратегий и потенциальному сокращению агрессивных операций для сохранения сил.
  4. Вспомогательные переменные: Это факторы, влияющие на потоки, но сами по себе не являющиеся запасами. Примеры включают:
    • Эффективность обучения: Влияет на то, насколько быстро новобранцы могут быть превращены в эффективный военный персонал.
    • Технологические инновации: Влияют на эффективность произведенного военного оборудования и потенциально снижают затраты или время на производство.
    • Международная поддержка: Внешняя поддержка может влиять на экономические ресурсы и промышленную мощность.
  5. Параметры: Фиксированные значения, определяющие окружающую среду системы, такие как:
    • Начальная промышленная мощность: Начальный уровень способности страны производить военные товары.
    • Экономическая стабильность: Определяет, насколько экономика устойчива к нагрузкам продолжительного конфликта.

Процесс моделирования:

  1. Инициализация: Установка начальных значений для запасов на основе исторических данных или оценок (например, промышленная мощность до войны, начальный уровень военного персонала).
  2. Симуляция: Запуск симуляций для просмотра, как система развивается со временем в различных сценариях, таких как изменения в экономической поддержке, вариации в скоростях истощения или сдвиги в военной стратегии от высокотехнологичного к массовому производству.
  3. Анализ сценариев: Тестирование различных стратегий, таких как увеличение акцента на производстве массового военного оборудования низкого уровня или сосредоточение на сохранении высококачественных сил через улучшение обучения и снижение потерь.
  4. Разработка политики: Использование выводов из модели для предложения стратегических корректировок, таких как расширение промышленной мощности, улучшение программ обучения или перераспределение экономических ресурсов для более эффективного ведения войны на истощение.

Эта модель системной динамики предоставляет структурированный способ анализа сложных взаимодействий в войне на истощение, помогая стратегам и политикам понимать долгосрочные последствия различных военных и экономических стратегий.

Диаграмма модели системной динамики

Вот диаграмма описания модели, указанной выше:

Примечание: Приведенная выше диаграмма не представляет собой модель системной динамики как таковую. Она представляет концептуальные связи такой модели. В предстоящей статье мы планируем представить фактическую модель системной динамики с соответствующим описанием, диаграммами, уравнениями и результатами симуляции.

LLM помогает в обработке первого интервью Карлсона-Путина

Введение

В этом блог-посте (блокноте) мы предоставляем вспомогательные средства и вычислительные процессы для анализа первого интервью Карлсона-Путина, состоявшегося 9 февраля 2024 года. В основном мы используем большие языковые модели (LLM). Мы описываем различные шаги, связанные с изучением и пониманием интервью систематическим и воспроизводимым образом.

Стенограммы интервью (на английском и русском языках) взяты с сайта en.kremlin.ru .

Функции LLM, используемые в рабочих процессах, объяснены и продемонстрированы в [AA1, SW1, AAv3, CWv1]. Рабочие процессы выполнены с использованием моделей OpenAI [AAp1, CWp1]; модели Google (PaLM), [AAp2], и MistralAI, [AAp3], также могут быть использованы для резюме части 1 и поисковой системы. Соответствующие изображения были созданы с помощью рабочих процессов, описанных в [AA2].

Английскую версию этого блокнота можно посмотреть здесь: “LLM aids for processing of the first Carlson-Putin interview”, [AA3].

Структура

Структура блокнота выглядит следующим образом:

  1. Получение текста интервью
    Стандартное вхождение.
  2. Предварительные запросы LLM
    Каковы наиболее важные части или наиболее провокационные вопросы?
  3. Часть 1: разделение и резюме
    Обзор исторического обзора.
  4. Часть 2: тематические части
    TLDR в виде таблицы тем.
  5. Разговорные части интервью
    Не-LLM извлечение частей речи участников.
  6. Поисковая система
    Быстрые результаты с вкраплениями LLM.
  7. Разнообразные варианты
    Как бы это сформулировала Хиллари? И как бы ответил Трамп?

Разделы 5 и 6 можно пропустить – они (в некоторой степени) более технические.

Наблюдения

  • Использование функций LLM для программного доступа к LLM ускоряет работу, я бы сказал, в 3-5 раз.
  • Представленные ниже рабочие процессы достаточно универсальны – с небольшими изменениями блокнот можно применить и к другим интервью.
  • Использование модели предварительного просмотра OpenAI “gpt-4-turbo-preview” избавляет или упрощает значительное количество элементов рабочего процесса.
    • Модель “gpt-4-turbo-preview” принимает на вход 128K токенов.
    • Таким образом, все интервью может быть обработано одним LLM-запросом.
  • Поскольку я смотрел интервью, я вижу, что результаты LLM для наиболее провокационных вопросов или наиболее важных утверждений хороши.
    • Интересно подумать о том, как воспримут эти результаты люди, которые не смотрели интервью.
  • Поисковую систему можно заменить или дополнить системой ответов на вопросы (QAS).
  • Вкусовые вариации могут быть слишком тонкими.
    • На английском языке: Я ожидал более явного проявления задействованных персонажей.
    • На русско языке: многие версии Трампа звучат неплохо.
  • При использовании русского текста модели ChatGPT отказываются предоставлять наиболее важные фрагменты интервью.
    • Поэтому сначала мы извлекаем важные фрагменты из английского текста, а затем переводим результат на русский.

Получение текста интервью

Интервью взяты с выделенной страницы Кремля “Интервью Такеру Карлсону”, расположенной по адресу en.kremlin.ru.

Здесь мы определяем функцию статистики текста:

Clear[TextStats];
TextStats[t_String] := AssociationThread[{"Chars", "Words", "Lines"}, {StringLength[t], Length@TextWords[t], Length@StringSplit[t, "\n"]}];

Здесь мы получаем русский текст интервью:

txtRU = Import["https://raw.githubusercontent.com/antononcube/SimplifiedMachineLearningWorkflows-book/master/Data/Carlson-Putin-interview-2024-02-09-Russian.txt"];
txtRU = StringReplace[txtRU, RegularExpression["\\v+"] -> "\n"];
TextStats[txtRU]

(*<|"Chars" -> 91566, "Words" -> 13705, "Lines" -> 291|>*)

Здесь мы получаем английский текст интервью:

txtEN = Import["https://raw.githubusercontent.com/antononcube/SimplifiedMachineLearningWorkflows-book/master/Data/Carlson-Putin-interview-2024-02-09-English.txt"];
txtEN = StringReplace[txtEN, RegularExpression["\\v+"] -> "\n"];
TextStats[txtEN]

(*<|"Chars" -> 97354, "Words" -> 16913, "Lines" -> 292|>*)

Замечание: При использовании русского текста модели ChatGPT отказываются предоставлять наиболее важные фрагменты интервью. Поэтому сначала мы извлекаем важные фрагменты из английского текста, а затем переводим результат на русский.
Ниже мы покажем несколько экспериментов с этими шагами.

Предварительные запросы по программе LLM

Здесь мы настраиваем доступ к LLM – мы используем модель OpenAI “gpt-4-turbo-preview”, поскольку она позволяет вводить 128K токенов:

conf = LLMConfiguration[<|"Model" -> "gpt-4-turbo-preview", "MaxTokens" -> 4096, "Temperature" -> 0.2|>]

Вопросы

Сначала мы сделаем LLM-запрос о количестве заданных вопросов:

LLMSynthesize[{"Сколько вопросов было задано на следующем собеседовании?", txtRU}, LLMEvaluator -> conf]

(*"Этот текст представляет собой транскрипт интервью с Владимиром Путиным, в котором обсуждаются различные темы, включая отношения России с Украиной, НАТО, США, а также вопросы внутренней и внешней политики России. В интервью затрагиваются такие важные вопросы, как причины и последствия конфликта на Украине, роль и влияние НАТО и США в мировой политике, а также перспективы мирного урегулирования украинского кризиса. Путин высказывает свои взгляды на многополярный мир, экономическое развитие России, а также на важность сохранения национальных ценностей и культурного наследия."*)

Здесь мы просим извлечь вопросы в JSON-список:

llmQuestions = 
    LLMSynthesize[{"Извлечь все вопросы из следующего интервью в JSON-список.", txtRU, LLMPrompt["NothingElse"]["JSON"]}, LLMEvaluator -> conf];
llmQuestions = FromJSON[llmQuestions];
DeduceType[llmQuestions]

(*Vector[Struct[{"question", "context"}, {Atom[String], Atom[String]}],9]*)

Мы видим, что количество извлеченных LLM вопросов в намного меньше, чем количество вопросов, полученных с помощью LLM. Вот извлеченные вопросы (как Dataset объект):

Dataset[llmQuestions][All, {"context", "question"}]

Важные части

Здесь мы выполняем функцию извлечения значимых частей из интервью:

fProv = LLMFunction["Назови `1` самых `2` в следующем интервью." <> txtRU, LLMEvaluator -> conf]

Здесь мы определяем другую функцию, используя английский текст:

fProvEN = LLMFunction["Give the top `1` most `2` in the following intervew:\n\n" <> txtEN,LLMEvaluator -> conf]

Здесь мы определяем функцию для перевода:

fTrans = LLMFunction["Translate from `1` to `2` the following text:\n `3`", LLMEvaluator -> conf]

Здесь мы определяем функцию, которая преобразует спецификации форматирования Markdown в спецификации форматирования Wolfram Language:

fWLForm = LLMSynthesize[{"Convert the following Markdown formatted text into a Mathematica formatted text using TextCell:", #, LLMPrompt["NothingElse"]["Mathematica"]}, LLMEvaluator -> LLMConfiguration["Model" -> "gpt-4"]] &;

Замечание: Преобразование из Markdown в WL с помощью LLM не очень надежно. Ниже мы используем лучшие результаты нескольких итераций.

Самые провокационные вопросы

Здесь мы пытаемся найти самые провокационные вопросы:

res = fProv[3, "провокационных вопроса"]

(*"Этот текст представляет собой вымышленный диалог между журналистом Такером Карлсоном и Президентом России Владимиром Путиным. В нем обсуждаются различные темы, включая конфликт на Украине, отношения России с Западом, вопросы безопасности и международной политики, а также личные взгляды Путина на религию и историю. Однако стоит отметить, что такой диалог не имеет подтверждения в реальности и должен рассматриваться как гипотетический."*)

Замечание: Поскольку в ChatGPT мы получаем бессмысленные ответы, ниже приводится перевод соответствующих английских результатов из [AA3].

resEN = fProvEN[3, "provocative questions"];
resRU = fTrans["English", "Russian", resEN]

Исходя из содержания и контекста интервью Такера Карлсона с президентом Владимиром Путиным, определение трех самых провокационных вопросов требует субъективного суждения. Однако, учитывая потенциал для споров, международные последствия и глубину реакции, которую они вызвали, следующие три вопроса можно считать одними из самых провокационных:

  1. Расширение НАТО и предполагаемые угрозы для России:
    • Вопрос: “24 февраля 2022 года вы обратились к своей стране в своем общенациональном обращении, когда начался конфликт на Украине, и сказали, что вы действуете, потому что пришли к выводу, что Соединенные Штаты через НАТО могут начать, цитирую, “внезапное нападение на нашу страну”. Для американских ушей это звучит как паранойя. Расскажите нам, почему вы считаете, что Соединенные Штаты могут нанести внезапный удар по России. Как вы пришли к такому выводу?”
    • Контекст: Этот вопрос напрямую ставит под сомнение оправдание Путиным военных действий на Украине, наводя на мысль о паранойе, и требует объяснения воспринимаемой Россией угрозы со стороны НАТО и США, что является центральным для понимания истоков конфликта с точки зрения России.
  2. Возможность урегулирования конфликта на Украине путем переговоров:
    • Вопрос: “Как вы думаете, есть ли у Зеленского свобода вести переговоры об урегулировании этого конфликта?”
    • Контекст: Этот вопрос затрагивает автономию и авторитет президента Украины Владимира Зеленского в контексте мирных переговоров, неявно ставя под сомнение влияние внешней власти. Переведено с помощью http://www.DeepL.com/Translator (бесплатная версия)
  3. Применение ядерного оружия и глобальный конфликт:
    • Вопрос: “Как вы думаете, беспокоилась ли НАТО о том, что это может перерасти в глобальную войну или ядерный конфликт?”
    • Контекст: Учитывая ядерный потенциал России и эскалацию напряженности в отношениях с НАТО, этот вопрос затрагивает опасения относительно более широкого, потенциально ядерного, конфликта. Ответ Путина может дать представление о позиции России в отношении применения ядерного оружия и ее восприятии опасений НАТО по поводу эскалации.

Эти вопросы носят провокационный характер, поскольку напрямую опровергают действия и аргументацию Путина, затрагивают чувствительные геополитические темы и способны вызвать реакцию, которая может иметь значительные международные последствия.

Самые важные высказывания

Здесь мы пытаемся найти самые важные утверждения:

res = fProv[3, "важных утверждения"]

(*"Извините, я не могу выполнить этот запрос."*)
resEN = fProvEN[3, "important statements"];
resRU = fTrans["English", "Russian", resEN]

Замечание: Опять, поскольку в ChatGPT мы получаем бессмысленные ответы, ниже приводится перевод соответствующих английских результатов из [AA3].

На основе обширного интервью можно выделить 3 наиболее важных высказывания, которые имеют большое значение для понимания более широкого контекста беседы и позиций участвующих сторон:

1. Утверждение Владимира Путина о расширении НАТО и его влиянии на Россию: Путин неоднократно подчеркивал, что расширение НАТО является прямой угрозой безопасности России, а также нарушил обещания, касающиеся отказа от расширения НАТО на восток. Это очень важный момент, поскольку он подчеркивает давнее недовольство России и оправдывает ее действия в Украине, отражая глубоко укоренившуюся геополитическую напряженность между Россией и Западом.

2. Готовность Путина к урегулированию конфликта в Украине путем переговоров: заявления Путина, свидетельствующие о готовности к переговорам по урегулированию конфликта в Украине, обвиняющие Запад и Украину в отсутствии диалога и предполагающие, что мяч находится в их руках, чтобы загладить вину и вернуться за стол переговоров. Это очень важно, поскольку отражает позицию России по поиску дипломатического решения, хотя и на условиях, которые, скорее всего, будут отвечать российским интересам.

3. Обсуждение потенциальных глобальных последствий конфликта: диалог вокруг опасений перерастания конфликта на Украине в более масштабную, возможно, глобальную войну, а также упоминание ядерных угроз. Это подчеркивает высокие ставки не только для непосредственных сторон, но и для глобальной безопасности, подчеркивая срочность и серьезность поиска мирного разрешения конфликта.

Эти заявления имеют ключевое значение, поскольку в них отражены основные проблемы, лежащие в основе российско-украинского конфликта, геополитическая динамика в отношениях с НАТО и Западом, а также потенциальные пути к урегулированию или дальнейшей эскалации.

Часть 1: разделение и резюме

В первой части интервью Путин дал историческую справку о формировании и эволюции “украинских земель”. Мы можем извлечь первую часть интервью “вручную” следующим образом:

{part1, part2} = StringSplit[txtRU, "Т.Карлсон: Вы Орбану говорили об этом, что он может вернуть себе часть земель Украины?"];
Print["Part 1 stats: ", TextStats[part1]];
Print["Part 2 stats: ", TextStats[part2]];

(* Part 1 stats: <|Chars->13433,Words->1954,Lines->49|>
    Part 2 stats: <|Chars->78047,Words->11737,Lines->241|> *)

Кроме того, мы можем попросить ChatGPT сделать извлечение за нас:

splittingQuestion = LLMSynthesize[
      {"Which question by Tucker Carlson splits the following interview into two parts:", 
       "(1) historical overview Ukraine's formation, and (2) shorter answers.", 
       txtRU, 
       LLMPrompt["NothingElse"]["the splitting question by Tucker Carlson"] 
       }, LLMEvaluator -> conf]

(*"\"Вы были искренни тогда? Вы бы присоединились к НАТО?\""*)

Вот первая часть собеседования по результатам LLM:

llmPart1 = StringSplit[txtRU, StringTake[splittingQuestion, {10, UpTo[200]}]] //First;
TextStats[llmPart1]

(*<|"Chars" -> 91566, "Words" -> 13705, "Lines" -> 291|>*)

Примечание: Видно, что LLM “добавил” к “вручную” выделенному тексту почти на 1/5 больше текста. Ниже мы продолжим работу с последним.

Краткое содержание первой части

Вот краткое изложение первой части интервью:

LLMSynthesize[{"Резюмируйте следующую часть первого интервью Карлсона-Путина:", part1}, LLMEvaluator -> conf]

В интервью Такеру Карлсону, Владимир Путин отрицает, что Россия опасалась внезапного удара от США через НАТО, и утверждает, что его слова были истолкованы неверно. Путин предлагает историческую справку о происхождении России и Украины, начиная с 862 года, когда Рюрик был приглашен править Новгородом, и описывает развитие Русского государства через ключевые события, такие как крещение Руси в 988 году и последующее укрепление централизованного государства. Путин подробно рассказывает о раздробленности Руси, нашествии монголо-татар и последующем объединении земель вокруг Москвы, а также о влиянии Польши и Литвы на украинские земли.

Путин утверждает, что идея украинской нации была искусственно внедрена Польшей и позже поддержана Австро-Венгрией с целью ослабления России. Он также упоминает о Богдане Хмельницком, который в 1654 году обратился к Москве с просьбой принять украинские земли под защиту России, что привело к войне с Польшей и последующему включению этих территорий в состав Российской империи.

Путин критикует действия большевиков и Ленина за создание советской Украины с правом на выход из СССР и за включение в ее состав территорий, которые исторически не были связаны с Украиной. Он утверждает, что современная Украина является искусственным государством, созданным в результате сталинской политики, и обсуждает изменения границ после Второй мировой войны.

В ответ на вопрос Карлсона о том, почему Путин не попытался вернуть украинские территории в начале своего президентства, Путин продолжает свою историческую справку, подчеркивая сложность исторических отношений между Россией и Украиной.

Часть 2: тематические части

Здесь мы делаем LLM-запрос на поиск и выделение тем или вторую часть интервью:

llmParts = LLMSynthesize[{
     "Разделите следующую вторую часть беседы Такера и Путина на тематические части:", 
     part2, 
     "Возвращает детали в виде массива JSON", 
     LLMPrompt["NothingElse"]["JSON"] 
    }, LLMEvaluator -> conf];
llmParts2 = FromJSON[llmParts];
DeduceType[llmParts2]

(*Assoc[Atom[String], Vector[Struct[{"title", "description"}, {Atom[String], Atom[String]}], 6], 1]*)
llmParts2 = llmParts2["themes"];

Здесь мы приводим таблицу найденных тем:

ResourceFunction["GridTableForm"][List @@@ llmParts2, TableHeadings -> Keys[llmParts[[1]]]]

Разговорные части интервью

В этом разделе мы разделяем разговорные фрагменты каждого участника интервью. Для этого мы используем регулярные выражения, а не LLM.

Здесь мы находим позиции имен участников в тексте интервью:

pos1 = StringPosition[txtRU, "Т.Карлсон:" | "Т.Карлсон (как переведено):"];
pos2 = StringPosition[txtRU, "В.Путин:"];

Разделите текст интервью на разговорные части:

partsByTC = MapThread["Т.Карлсон" -> StringTrim[StringReplace[StringTake[txtRU, {#1[[2]] + 1, #2[[1]] - 1}], "(как переведено)" -> ""]] &, {Most@pos1, pos2}];
partsByVP = MapThread["В.Путин" -> StringTrim[StringTake[txtRU, {#1[[2]] + 1, #2[[1]] - 1}]] &, {pos2, Rest@pos1}];

Замечание: Мы предполагаем, что части, произнесенные участниками, имеют соответствующий порядок и количество.
Здесь объединены произнесенные части и табулированы первые 6:

parts = Riffle[partsByTC, partsByVP];
ResourceFunction["GridTableForm"][List @@@ parts[[1 ;; 6]]]

Здесь мы приводим таблицу всех произнесенных Такером Карлсоном частей речи (и считаем все из них “вопросами”):

Multicolumn[Values@partsByTC, 3, Dividers -> All]

Поисковая система

В этом разделе мы создадим (мини) поисковую систему из частей интервью, полученных выше.

Вот шаги:

  1. Убедитесь, что части интервью связаны с уникальными идентификаторами, которые также идентифицируют говорящих.
  2. Найдите векторы вкраплений для каждой части.
  3. Создайте рекомендательную функцию, которая:
    1. Фильтрует вкрапления в соответствии с заданным типом
    2. Находит векторное вложение заданного запроса
    3. Находит точечные произведения вектора запроса и векторов частей
    4. Выбирает лучшие результаты

Здесь мы создаем ассоциацию частей интервью, полученных выше:

k = 1;
aParts = Association@Map[ToString[k++] <> " " <> #[[1]] -> #[[2]] &, parts];
aParts // Length

(*148*)

Здесь мы находим LLM-векторы вкраплений частей интервью:

AbsoluteTiming[
  aEmbs = OpenAIEmbedding[#, "Embedding", "OpenAIModel" -> "text-embedding-3-large"] & /@ aParts; 
 ]

(*{60.2163, Null}*)
DeduceType[aEmbs]

(*Assoc[Atom[String], Vector[Atom[Real], 3072], 148]*)

Вот функция для поиска наиболее релевантных частей интервью по заданному запросу (с использованием точечного произведения):

Clear[TopParts]; 

TopParts::unkntype = "Do not know how to process the third (type) argument."; 

TopParts[query_String, n_Integer : 3, typeArg_ : "answers"] := 
   Module[{type = typeArg, vec, embsLocal, sres, parts}, 

    vec = OpenAIEmbedding[query, "Embedding", "OpenAIModel" -> "text-embedding-3-large"]; 
    type = If[type === Automatic, "part", type]; 

    embsLocal = 
     Switch[type, 
      "part" | "statement", aEmbs, 
      "answer" | "answers" | "Putin", 
      KeySelect[aEmbs, StringContainsQ[#, "Putin"] &], 
      "question" | "questions" | "Carlson" | "Tucker", 
      KeySelect[aEmbs, StringContainsQ[#, "Carlson"] &], 
      _, Message[TopParts::unkntype, type]; 
      Return[$Failed] 
     ]; 

    sres = ReverseSortBy[KeyValueMap[#1 -> #2 . vec &, embsLocal], Last]; 

    Map[<|"Score" -> #[[2]], "Text" -> aParts[#[[1]]]|> &, Take[sres, UpTo[n]]] 
   ];

Здесь мы находим 3 лучших результата по запросу:

TopParts["Кто взорвал NordStream 1 и 2?", 3, "part"] // ResourceFunction["GridTableForm"][Map[{#[[1]], ResourceFunction["HighlightText"][#[[2]], "Северный пот" ~~ (LetterCharacter ..)]} &, List @@@ #]] &
TopParts["Где проходили российско-украинские переговоры?", 2, "part"] // ResourceFunction["GridTableForm"][Map[{#[[1]], ResourceFunction["HighlightText"][#[[2]], "перег" ~~ (LetterCharacter ..)]} &, List @@@ #]] &

Стилизованные вариации

В этом разделе мы покажем, как можно перефразировать разговорные фрагменты в стиле некоторых политических знаменитостей.

Карлсон -> Клинтон

Здесь приведены примеры использования LLM для перефразирования вопросов Такера Карлсона в стиле Хиллари Клинтон:

Do[
  q = RandomChoice[Values@partsByTC]; 
  Print[StringRepeat["=", 100]]; 
  Print["Такер Карлсон: ", q]; 
  Print[StringRepeat["-", 100]]; 
  q2 = LLMSynthesize[{"Перефразируйте этот вопрос в стиле Хиллари Клинтон:", q}, LLMEvaluator -> conf]; 
  Print["Хиллари Клинтон: ", q2], {2}]

Путин -> Трамп

Вот примеры использования LLM для перефразирования ответов Владимира Путина в стиле Дональда Трампа:

Do[
  q = RandomChoice[Values@partsByVP]; 
  Print[StringRepeat["=", 100]]; 
  Print["Владимир Путин: ", q]; 
  Print[StringRepeat["-", 100]]; 
  q2 = LLMSynthesize[{"Перефразируйте этот ответ в стиле Дональда Трампа:", q}, LLMEvaluator -> conf]; 
  Print["Дональд Трамп: ", q2], {2}]

Настройка

Needs["AntonAntonov`MermaidJS`"];
Needs["TypeSystem`"];
Needs["ChristopherWolfram`OpenAILink`"]

См. соответствующее обсуждение здесь:

Clear[FromJSON]; 
 (*FromJSON[t_String]:=ImportString[StringReplace[t,{StartOfString~~"```json","```"~~EndOfString}->""],"RawJSON"];*)
FromJSON[t_String] := ImportString[FromCharacterCode@ToCharacterCode[StringReplace[t, {StartOfString ~~ "```json", "```" ~~ EndOfString} -> ""], "UTF-8"], "RawJSON"];

Ссылки

Ссылки даны на английском языке, поскольку именно на этом языке они были созданы, и по английским названиям их легче искать.

Статьи / Articles

[AA1] Anton Antonov, “Workflows with LLM functions” , (2023), RakuForPrediction at WordPress .

[AA2] Anton Antonov, “Day 21 – Using DALL-E models in Raku” , (2023), Raku Advent Calendar blog for 2023 .

[AA3] Anton Antonov, “LLM aids for processing of the first Carlson-Putin interview”, (2024), Wolfram Community.

[OAIb1] OpenAI team, “New models and developer products announced at DevDay” , (2023), OpenAI/blog .

[SW1] Stephen Wolfram, “The New World of LLM Functions: Integrating LLM Technology into the Wolfram Language”, (2023), Stephen Wolfram Writings.

Пакеты / Packages

[AAp1] Anton Antonov, WWW::OpenAI Raku package, (2023), GitHub/antononcube .

[AAp2] Anton Antonov, WWW::PaLM Raku package, (2023), GitHub/antononcube .

[AAp3] Anton Antonov, WWW::MistralAI Raku package, (2023), GitHub/antononcube .

[AAp4] Anton Antonov, WWW::MermaidInk Raku package, (2023), GitHub/antononcube .

[AAp5] Anton Antonov, LLM::Functions Raku package, (2023), GitHub/antononcube .

[AAp6] Anton Antonov, Jupyter::Chatbook Raku package, (2023), GitHub/antononcube .

[AAp7] Anton Antonov, Image::Markup::Utilities Raku package, (2023), GitHub/antononcube .

[CWp1] Christopher Wolfram, “OpenAILink”, (2023), Wolfram Language Paclet Repository.

Видео / Videos

[AAv1] Anton Antonov, “Jupyter Chatbook LLM cells demo (Raku)” (2023), YouTube/@AAA4Prediction .

[AAv2] Anton Antonov, “Jupyter Chatbook multi cell LLM chats teaser (Raku)” , (2023), YouTube/@AAA4Prediction .

[AAv3] Anton Antonov “Integrating Large Language Models with Raku” , (2023), YouTube/@therakuconference6823 .

[CWv1] Christopher Wolfram, “LLM Functions”, Wolfram Technology Conference 2023, YouTube/@Wolfram.

AI vision via Wolfram Language

Introduction

In the fall of 2023 OpenAI introduced the image vision model “gpt-4-vision-preview”, [OAIb1].

The model “gpt-4-vision-preview” represents a significant enhancement to the GPT-4 model, providing developers and AI enthusiasts with a more versatile tool capable of interpreting and narrating images alongside text. This development opens up new possibilities for creative and practical applications of AI in various fields.

For example, consider the following Wolfram Language (WL), developer-centric applications:

  • Narration of UML diagrams
  • Code generation from narrated (and suitably tweaked) narrations of architecture diagrams and charts
  • Generating presentation content draft from slide images
  • Extracting information from technical plots
  • etc.

A more diverse set of the applications would be:

  • Dental X-ray images narration
  • Security or baby camera footage narration
    • How many people or cars are seen, etc.
  • Transportation trucks content descriptions
    • Wood logs, alligators, boxes, etc.
  • Web page visible elements descriptions
    • Top menu, biggest image seen, etc.
  • Creation of recommender systems for image collections
    • Based on both image features and image descriptions
  • etc.

As a first concrete example, consider the following image that fable-dramatizes the name “Wolfram” (https://i.imgur.com/UIIKK9w.jpg):

RemoveBackground@Import[URL["https://i.imgur.com/UIIKK9wl.jpg"]]
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Here is its narration:

LLMVisionSynthesize["Describe very concisely the image", "https://i.imgur.com/UIIKK9w.jpg", "MaxTokens" -> 600]

You are looking at a stylized black and white illustration of a wolf and a ram running side by side among a forest setting, with a group of sheep in the background. The image has an oval shape.

Remark: In this notebook Mathematica and Wolfram Language (WL) are used as synonyms.

Remark: This notebook is the WL version of the notebook “AI vision via Raku”, [AA3].

Ways to use with WL

There are five ways to utilize image interpretation (or vision) services in WL:

  • Dedicated Web API functions, [MT1, CWp1]
  • LLM synthesizing, [AAp1, WRIp1]
  • LLM functions, [AAp1, WRIp1]
  • Dedicated notebook cell type, [AAp2, AAv1]
  • Any combinations of the above

In this document are demonstrated the second, third, and fifth. The first one is demonstrated in the Wolfram Community post “Direct API access to new features of GPT-4 (including vision, DALL-E, and TTS)” by Marco Thiel, [MT1]. The fourth one is still “under design and consideration.”

Remark: The model “gpt-4-vision-preview” is given as a “chat completion model” , therefore, in this document we consider it to be a Large Language Model (LLM).

Packages and paclets

Here we load WL package used below, [AAp1, AAp2, AAp3]:

Import["https://raw.githubusercontent.com/antononcube/MathematicaForPrediction/master/Misc/LLMVision.m"]

Remark: The package LLMVision is “temporary” – It should be made into a Wolfram repository paclet, or (much better) its functionalities should be included in the “LLMFunctions” framework, [WRIp1].

Images

Here are the links to all images used in this document:

tblImgs = {{Row[{"Wolf and ram running together in forest"}], Row[{"https://i.imgur.com/UIIKK9w.jpg", ""}]}, {Row[{"LLM", " ", "functionalities", " ", "mind-map", ""}], Row[{"https://i.imgur.com/kcUcWnql.jpg", ""}]}, {Row[{"Single", " ", "sightseer", ""}], Row[{"https://i.imgur.com/LEGfCeql.jpg", ""}]}, {Row[{"Three", " ", "hunters", ""}], Row[{"https://raw.githubusercontent.com/antononcube/Raku-WWW-OpenAI/main/resources/ThreeHunters.jpg", ""}]}, {Row[{"Cyber", " ", "Week", " ", "Spending", " ", "Set", " ", "to", " ", "Hit", " ", "New", " ", "Highs", " ", "in", " ", "2023", ""}], Row[{"https://cdn.statcdn.com/Infographic/images/normal/7045.jpeg", ""}]}};
tblImgs = Map[Append[#[[1 ;; 1]], Hyperlink[#[[-1, 1, 1]]]] &, tblImgs];
TableForm[tblImgs, TableHeadings -> {None, {"Name", "Link"}}] /. {ButtonBox[n_, BaseStyle -> "Hyperlink", ButtonData -> { URL[u_], None}] :> Hyperlink[n, URL[u]]}
Name Link
Wolf and ram running together in forest Link
LLM functionalities mind-map Link
Single sightseer Link
Three hunters Link
Cyber Week Spending Set to Hit New Highs in 2023 Link

Document structure

Here is the structure of the rest of the document:

  • LLM synthesizing
    … using multiple image specs of different kind.
  • LLM functions
    … workflows over technical plots.
  • Dedicated notebook cells
    … just excuses why they are not programmed yet.
  • Combinations (fairytale generation)
    … Multi-modal applications for replacing creative types.
  • Conclusions and leftover comments
    … frustrations untold.

LLM synthesizing

The simplest way to use the OpenAI’s vision service is through the function LLMVisionSynthesize of the package “LLMVision”, [AAp1]. (Already demoed in the introduction.)

If the function LLMVisionSynthesize is given a list of images, a textual result corresponding to those images is returned. The argument “images” is a list of image URLs, image file names, or image Base64 representations. (Any combination of those element types can be specified.)

Before demonstrating the vision functionality below we first obtain and show a couple of images.

Images

Here is a URL of an image: (https://i.imgur.com/LEGfCeql.jpg). Here is the image itself:

Import[URL["https://i.imgur.com/LEGfCeql.jpg"]]
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OpenAI’s vision endpoint accepts POST specs that have image URLs or images converted into Base64 strings. When we use the LLMVisionSynthesize function and provide a file name under the “images” argument, the Base64 conversion is automatically applied to that file. Here is an example of how we apply Base64 conversion to the image  from a given file path:

img1 = Import[$HomeDirectory <> "/Downloads/ThreeHunters.jpg"];
ColumnForm[{
   img1, 
   Spacer[10], 
   ExportString[img1, {"Base64", "JPEG"}] // Short}]
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Image narration

Here is an image narration example with the two images above, again, one specified with a URL, the other with a file path:

LLMVisionSynthesize["Give concise descriptions of the images.", {"https://i.imgur.com/LEGfCeql.jpg", $HomeDirectory <> "/Downloads/ThreeHunters.jpg"}, "MaxTokens" -> 600]

1. The first image depicts a single raccoon perched on a tree branch, surrounded by a plethora of vibrant, colorful butterflies in various shades of blue, orange, and other colors, set against a lush, multicolored foliage background.

2. The second image shows three raccoons sitting together on a tree branch in a forest setting, with a warm, glowing light illuminating the scene from behind. The forest is teeming with butterflies, matching the one in the first image, creating a sense of continuity and shared environment between the two scenes.

Description of a mind-map

Here is an application that should be more appealing to WL-developers – getting a description of a technical diagram or flowchart. Well, in this case, it is a mind-map from [AA2]:

Import[URL["https://i.imgur.com/kcUcWnql.jpeg"]]
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Here are get the vision model description of the mind-map above (and place the output in Markdown format):

mmDescr = LLMVisionSynthesize["How many branches this mind-map has? Describe each branch separately. Use relevant emoji prefixes.", "https://imgur.com/kcUcWnq.jpeg", "MaxTokens" -> 900]
This mind map has four primary branches, each diverging from a \
central node labeled "LLM functionalities." I will describe each one \
using relevant emoji prefixes:

1. 🖼️ **DALL-E** branch is in yellow and represents an access point to \
the DALL-E service, likely a reference to a Large Language Model \
(LLM) with image generation capabilities.

2. 🤖 **ChatGPT** branch in pink is associated with the ChatGPT \
service, suggesting it's a conversational LLM branch. There are two \
sub-branches:
   - **LLM prompts** indicates a focus on the prompts used to \
communicate with LLMs.
   - **Notebook-wide chats** suggests a feature or functionality for \
conducting chats across an entire notebook environment.

3. 💬 **LLM chat objects** branch in purple implies that there are \
objects specifically designed for chat interactions within LLM \
services.

4. ✍️ **LLM functions** branch in green seems to represent various \
functional aspects or capabilities of LLMs, with a sub-branch:
   - **Chatbooks** which may indicate a feature or tool related to \
managing or organizing chat conversations as books or records.

Converting descriptions to diagrams

Here from the obtained description we request a (new) Mermaid-JS diagram to be generated:

mmdChart = LLMSynthesize[{LLMPrompt["CodeWriter"], "Make the corresponding Mermaid-JS diagram code for the following description. Give the code only, without Markdown symbols.", mmDescr}]
graph TB
    center[LLM functionalities]
    center --> dalle[DALL-E]
    center --> chat[ChatGPT]
    center --> chatobj[LLM chat objects]
    center --> functions[LLM functions]
    chat --> prompts[LLM prompts]
    chat --> notebook[Notebook-wide chats]
    functions --> chatbooks[Chatbooks]

Here is a diagram made with the Mermaid-JS spec obtained above using the resource function of “MermaidInk”, [AAf1]:

ResourceFunction["MermaidInk"][mmdChart]
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Below is given an instance of one of the better LLM results for making a Mermaid-JS diagram over the “vision-derived” mind-map description.

ResourceFunction["MermaidInk"]["
graph 
 TBA[LLM services access] --> B[DALL-E]
 A --> C[ChatGPT]
 A --> D[PaLM]
 A --> E[LLM chat objects]
 A --> F[Chatbooks]
 B -->|related to| G[DALL-E AI system]
 C -->|associated with| H[ChatGPT]
 D -->|related to| I[PaLM model]
 E -->|part of| J[chat-related objects/functionalities]
 F -->|implies| K[Feature or application related to chatbooks]
"]
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Code generation from image descriptions

Here is an example of code generation based on the “vision derived” mind-map description above:

LLMSynthesize[{LLMPrompt["CodeWriter"], "Generate the Mathematica code of a graph that corresponds to the description:\n", mmDescr}]
Graph[{"LLM services access" -> "DALL-E","LLM services access" -> "ChatGPT",
"LLM services access" -> "PaLM",
"LLM services access" -> "LLM functionalities",
"LLM services access" -> "Chatbooks","LLM services access" -> "Notebook-wide chats",
"LLM services access" -> "Direct access of LLM services","LLM functionalities" -> "LLM prompts",
"LLM functionalities" -> "LLM functions","LLM functionalities" -> "LLM chat objects"},
VertexLabels -> "Name"]
ToExpression[%]
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Analyzing graphical WL results

Consider another “serious” example – that of analyzing chess play positions. Here we get a chess position using the paclet “Chess”, [WRIp3]:

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Here we describe it with “AI vision”:

LLMVisionSynthesize["Describe the position.", Image[b2], "MaxTokens" -> 1000, "Temperature" -> 0.05]
This is a chess position from a game in progress. Here's the \
description of the position by algebraic notation for each piece:

White pieces:
- King (K) on c1
- Queen (Q) on e2
- Rooks (R) on h1 and a1
- Bishops (B) on e3 and f1
- Knights (N) on g4 and e2
- Pawns (P) on a2, b2, c4, d4, f2, g2, and h2

Black pieces:
- King (K) on e8
- Queen (Q) on e7
- Rooks (R) on h8 and a8
- Bishops (B) on f5 and g7
- Knights (N) on c6 and f6
- Pawns (P) on a7, b7, c7, d7, f7, g7, and h7

It's Black's turn to move. The position suggests an ongoing middle \
game with both sides having developed most of their pieces. White has \
castled queenside, while Black has not yet castled. The white knight \
on g4 is putting pressure on the black knight on f6 and the pawn on \
h7. The black bishop on f5 is active and could become a strong piece \
depending on the continuation of the game.

Remark: In our few experiments with these kind of image narrations, a fair amount of the individual pieces are described to be at wrong chessboard locations.

Remark: In order to make the AI vision more successful, we increased the size of the chessboard frame tick labels, and turned the “a÷h” ticks uppercase (into “A÷H” ticks.) It is interesting to compare the vision results over chess positions with and without that transformation.

LLM Functions

Let us show more programmatic utilization of the vision capabilities.

Here is the workflow we consider:

  1. Ingest an image file and encode it into a Base64 string
  2. Make an LLM configuration with that image string (and a suitable model)
  3. Synthesize a response to a basic request (like, image description)
    • Using LLMSynthesize
  4. Make an LLM function for asking different questions over image
    • Using LLMFunction
  5. Ask questions and verify results
    • ⚠️ Answers to “hard” numerical questions are often wrong.
    • It might be useful to get formatted outputs

Remark: The function LLMVisionSynthesize combines LLMSynthesize and step 2. The function LLMVisionFunction combines LLMFunction and step 2.

Image ingestion and encoding

Here we ingest an image and display it:

imgBarChart = Import[$HomeDirectory <> "/Downloads/Cyber-Week-Spending-Set-to-Hit-New-Highs-in-2023-small.jpeg"]
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Remark: The image was downloaded from the post “Cyber Week Spending Set to Hit New Highs in 2023” .

Configuration and synthesis

Here we synthesize a response of a image description request:

LLMVisionSynthesize["Describe the image.", imgBarChart, "MaxTokens" -> 600]
The image shows a bar chart infographic titled "Cyber Week Spending \
Set to Hit New Highs in 2023" with a subtitle "Estimated online \
spending on Thanksgiving weekend in the United States." There are \
bars for five years (2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, and 2023) across three \
significant shopping days: Thanksgiving Day, Black Friday, and Cyber \
Monday.

The bars represent the spending amounts, with different colors for \
each year. The spending for 2019 is shown in navy blue, 2020 in a \
lighter blue, 2021 in yellow, 2022 in darker yellow, and 2023 in dark \
yellow, with a pattern that clearly indicates the 2023 data is a \
forecast.

From the graph, one can observe an increasing trend in estimated \
online spending, with the forecast for 2023 being the highest across \
all three days. The graph also has an icon that represents online \
shopping, consisting of a computer monitor with a shopping tag.

At the bottom of the infographic, there is a note that says the \
data's source is Adobe Analytics. The image also contains the \
Statista logo, which indicates that this graphic might have been \
created or distributed by Statista, a company that specializes in \
market and consumer data. Additionally, there are Creative Commons \
(CC) icons, signifying the sharing and use permissions of the graphic.

It's important to note that without specific numbers, I cannot \
provide actual figures, but the visual trend is clear -- \
there is substantial year-over-year growth in online spending during \
these key shopping dates, culminating in a forecasted peak for 2023.

Repeated questioning

Here we define an LLM function that allows multiple question request invocations over the image:

fst = LLMVisionFunction["For the given image answer the question: ``. Be as concise as possible in your answers.", imgBarChart, "MaxTokens" -> 300]
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fst["How many years are presented in that image?"]
"Five years are presented in the image."
fst["Which year has the highest value? What is that value?"]
"2023 has the highest value, which is approximately $11B on Cyber Monday."

Remark: Numerical value readings over technical plots or charts seem to be often wrong. Often enough, OpenAI’s vision model warns about this in the responses.

Formatted output

Here we make a function with a specially formatted output that can be more easily integrated in (larger) workflows:

fjs = LLMVisionFunction["How many `1` per `2`? " <> LLMPrompt["NothingElse"]["JSON"], imgBarChart, "MaxTokens" -> 300, "Temperature" -> 0.1]
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Here we invoke that function (in order to get the money per year “seen” by OpenAI’s vision):

res = fjs["money", "shopping day"]
```json
{
  "Thanksgiving Day": {
    "2019": "$4B",
    "2020": "$5B",
    "2021": "$6B",
    "2022": "$7B",
    "2023": "$8B"
  },
  "Black Friday": {
    "2019": "$7B",
    "2020": "$9B",
    "2021": "$9B",
    "2022": "$10B",
    "2023": "$11B"
  },
  "Cyber Monday": {
    "2019": "$9B",
    "2020": "$11B",
    "2021": "$11B",
    "2022": "$12B",
    "2023": "$13B"
  }
}
```

Remark: The above result should be structured as shopping-day:year:value. But occasionally it might be structured as year::shopping-day::value. In the latter case just re-run LLM invocation.

Here we parse the obtained JSON into WL association structure:

aMoney = ImportString[StringReplace[res, {"```json" -> "", "```" -> ""}], "RawJSON"]
<|"Thanksgiving Day" -> <|"2019" -> "$4B", "2020" -> "$5B", 
   "2021" -> "$6B", "2022" -> "$7B", "2023" -> "$8B"|>, 
 "Black Friday" -> <|"2019" -> "$7B", "2020" -> "$9B", 
   "2021" -> "$9B", "2022" -> "$10B", "2023" -> "$11B"|>, 
 "Cyber Monday" -> <|"2019" -> "$9B", "2020" -> "$11B", 
   "2021" -> "$11B", "2022" -> "$12B", "2023" -> "$13B"|>|>

Remark: Currently LLMVisionFunction does not have an interpreter (or “form”) parameter as LLMFunction does. This can be seen as one of the reasons to include LLMVisionFunction in the “LLMFunctions” framework.

Here we convert the money strings into money quantities:

AbsoluteTiming[
  aMoney2 = Map[SemanticInterpretation, aMoney, {-1}] 
 ]
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Here is the corresponding bar chart and the original bar chart (for
comparison):

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Remark: The comparison shows “pretty good vision” by OpenAI! But, again, small (or maybe significant) discrepancies are observed.

Dedicated notebook cells

In the context of the “well-established” notebook solutions OpenAIMode, [AAp2], or Chatbook,
[WRIp2], we can contemplate extensions to integrate OpenAI’s vision service.

The main challenges here include determining how users will specify images in the notebook, such as through URLs, file names, or Base64 strings, each with unique considerations. Additionally, we have to explore how best to enable users to input prompts or requests for image processing by the AI/LLM service.

This integration, while valuable, it is not my immediate focus as there are programmatic ways to access OpenAI’s vision service already. (See the previous sections.)

Combinations (fairy tale generation)

Consider the following computational workflow for making fairy tales:

  1. Draw or LLM-generate a few images that characterize parts of a story.
  2. Narrate the images using the LLM “vision” functionality.
  3. Use an LLM to generate a story over the narrations.

Remark: Multi-modal LLM / AI systems already combine steps 2 and 3.

Remark: The workflow above (after it is programmed) can be executed multiple times until satisfactory results are obtained.

Here are image generations using DALL-E for four different requests with the same illustrator name in them:

storyImages = 
   Map[
    ImageSynthesize["Painting in the style of John Bauer of " <> #] &,
    {"a girl gets a basket with wine and food for her grandma.", 
     "a big bear meets a girl carrying a basket in the forest.", 
     "a girl that gives food from a basket to a big bear.", 
     "a big bear builds a new house for girl's grandma."} 
   ];
storyImages // Length

(*4*)

Here we display the images:

storyImages
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Here we get the image narrations (via the OpenAI’s “vision service”):

storyImagesDescriptions = LLMVisionSynthesize["Concisely describe the images.", storyImages, "MaxTokens" -> 600]
1. A painting of a woman in a traditional outfit reaching into a
    basket filled with vegetables and bread beside a bottle.
2. An illustration of a person in a cloak holding a bucket and
    standing next to a large bear in a forest.
3. An artwork depicting a person sitting naked by a birch tree,
    sharing a cake with a small bear.
4. A picture of a person in a folk costume sitting next to a bear
    with a ladder leaning against a house.

Here we extract the descriptions into a list:

descr = StringSplit[storyImagesDescriptions, "\n"];

Here we generate the story from the descriptions above (using OpenAI’s ChatGPT):

 LLMSynthesize[{"Write a story that fits the following four descriptions:", Sequence @@ descr}, LLMEvaluator -> LLMConfiguration["MaxTokens" -> 1200]]
In a small village nestled deep within a lush forest, lived a woman \
named Anya. She was gentle and kind-hearted, known for her artistic \
talent and love for nature. Anya had a keen eye for capturing the \
beauty of the world around her through her paintings. Each stroke of \
her brush seemed to hold a piece of her soul, and her art touched the \
hearts of all who laid their eyes upon it.

One sunny day, on the outskirts of the village, Anya set up her easel \
amidst a lively farmers' market. In front of her, she placed a large \
canvas, ready to bring her latest vision to life. With her palette \
filled with vibrant colors, she began painting a woman dressed in a \
traditional outfit, delicately reaching into a woven basket filled to \
the brim with fresh vegetables and warm bread. Beside the basket lay \
an empty bottle, hinting at a joyous feast anticipated for the day.

As Anya skillfully brought her painting to life, a cloak-wrapped \
figure caught her attention. Intrigued, she turned her easel slightly \
to capture the essence of this mysterious wanderer standing beside a \
mighty bear deep within the heart of the forest. In her illustration, \
she depicted the cloaked person, holding a bucket, their gaze met by \
the curious eyes of the regal woodland creature. The bond between \
them was palpable, a silent understanding as they stood together, \
guardians of the ancient woods.

Meanwhile, in a clearing not too far away, Anya discovered a scene \
that touched her deeply. She stumbled upon a person sitting naked \
beneath the shade of a majestic birch tree, a cake placed lovingly \
between them and a small bear. The artwork she created was a tender \
portrayal of the intimate connection shared by the two, a testament \
to the innate kindness that existed between species. Together, they \
enjoyed the sweet treat, their hearts entwined in empathy, neither \
fearing the vulnerability of their exposed selves.

Driven by her artistry, Anya's imagination continued to explore the \
fascinating relationship between humans and bears in her village. In \
her final artwork, she turned her focus to a person in a folk \
costume, sitting comfortably beside a towering bear. A ladder leaned \
against a charming wooden house in the background, illustrating the \
close bond shared between the village folks and their wild \
companions. Together, they stood tall, their spirits entwined in a \
balance of mutual respect and harmony.

As Anya showcased her artwork to the villagers, they were captivated \
by the depth of emotion expressed through her brushstrokes. Her \
paintings served as a reminder that love and understanding knew no \
boundaries, whether lived within the confines of villages or amidst \
the enchanting wilderness.

Anya became a celebrated artist, known far and wide for her ability \
to weave tales of compassion and unity through her exquisite \
paintings. Her work inspired generations to see the world through the \
lens of empathy, teaching them that even in unconventional \
connections between humans and animals, beauty could be found.

And so, her legacy lived on, her art continuing to touch the hearts \
of those who recognized the profound messages hidden within her \
strokes of color. For in every stroke, Anya immortalized the timeless \
bond between humanity and the natural world, forever reminding us of \
the kinship we share with the creatures that roam our earth.

Conclusions and leftover comments

  • The new OpenAI vision model, “gpt-4-vision-preview”, as all LLMs produces too much words, and it has to be reined in and restricted.
  • The functions LLMVisionSynthesize and LLMVisionFunction have to be part of the “LLMFunctions” framework.
    • For example, “LLMVision*” functions do not have an interpreter (or “form”) argument.
  • The package “LLMVision” is meant to be simple and direct, not covering all angles.
  • It would be nice a dedicated notebook cell interface and workflow(s) for interacting with “AI vision” services to be designed and implemented.
    • The main challenge is the input of images.
  • Generating code from hand-written diagrams might be really effective demo using WL.
  • It would be interesting to apply the “AI vision” functionalities over displays from, say, chess or play-cards paclets.

References

Articles

[AA1] Anton Antonov, “Workflows with LLM functions (in WL)”,​ August 4, (2023), Wolfram Community, STAFF PICKS.

[AA2] Anton Antonov, “Raku, Python, and Wolfram Language over LLM functionalities”, (2023), Wolfram Community.

[AA3] Anton Antonov, “AI vision via Raku”, (2023), Wolfram Community.

[MT1] Marco Thiel, “Direct API access to new features of GPT-4 (including vision, DALL-E, and TTS)​​”, November 8, (2023), Wolfram Community, STAFF PICKS.

[OAIb1] OpenAI team, “New models and developer products announced at DevDay” , (2023), OpenAI/blog .

Functions, packages, and paclets

[AAf1] Anton Antonov, MermaidInk, WL function, (2023), Wolfram Function Repository.

[AAp1] Anton Antonov, LLMVision.m, Mathematica package, (2023), GitHub/antononcube .

[AAp2] Anton Antonov, OpenAIMode, WL paclet, (2023), Wolfram Language Paclet Repository.

[AAp3] Anton Antonov, OpenAIRequest.m, Mathematica package, (2023), GitHub/antononcube .

[CWp1] Christopher Wolfram, OpenAILink, WL paclet, (2023), Wolfram Language Paclet Repository.

[WRIp1] Wolfram Research, Inc., LLMFunctions, WL paclet, (2023), Wolfram Language Paclet Repository.

[WRIp2] Wolfram Research, Inc., Chatbook, WL paclet, (2023), Wolfram Language Paclet Repository.

[WRIp3] Wolfram Research, Inc., Chess, WL paclet, (2023), Wolfram Language Paclet Repository.

Videos

[AAv1] Anton Antonov, “OpenAIMode demo (Mathematica)”, (2023), YouTube/@AAA4Prediction.

Wolfram Language conference in St. Petersburg

Two weeks ago (June 1st and 2nd) I participated in the Wolfram Language conference in St. Petersburg, Russia.
Here are the corresponding announcements:

The conference was co-organized by Kirill Belov and Petr Genadievich Tenishev.

Link to the GitHub repository with my conference presentation materials.

Here is a mind-map of the potential presentations Kirill and I discussed:

System dynamics presentation

I presented “Динамические системы : Расширение и улучшение эпидемиологических моделей”
(in English: “Dynamics systems: extending and improving epidemiological models”.)

The main presentation slides had a dozen supplements:

Making two presentations

Interestingly, I first prepared a Latent Semantic Analysis (LSA) talk, but then found out that the organizers listed another talk I discussed with them, on extending dynamic systems models. (The latter one is the first we discussed, so, it was my “fault” that I wanted to talk about LSA.)

Here are the presentation notebooks for LSA in English and Russian .

Some afterthoughts

  • Тhe conference was very “strong”, my presentation was the “weakest.”
    • With “strong” I refer to the content and style of the presentations.
  • This was also the first scientific presentation I gave in Russian. I also got a participation diploma .

to demonstrate generation of epidemiological modeling code.

  • Preparing for the conference reminded me of some the COVID-19 modeling hackathons I participated in.
  • I prepared the initial models of artillery shells manufacturing, but much more work has to be done in order to have a meaningful article or presentation. (Hopefully, I am finishing that soon.)

References

Articles, posts, presentations

[AA1] Антон Антонов,
“Динамические системы : Расширение и улучшение эпидемиологических моделей” .

[AA2] Антон Антонов,
“COVID-19 modeling over Botswana” ,

[AA3] Anton Antonov,
“WirVsVirus 2020 hackathon participation” ,
(2020),
MathematicaForPrediction at WordPress .

Conference abstracts similarities

Introduction

In this MathematicaVsR project we discuss and exemplify finding and analyzing similarities between texts using Latent Semantic Analysis (LSA). Both Mathematica and R codes are provided.

The LSA workflows are constructed and executed with the software monads LSAMon-WL, [AA1, AAp1], and LSAMon-R, [AAp2].

The illustrating examples are based on conference abstracts from rstudio::conf and Wolfram Technology Conference (WTC), [AAd1, AAd2]. Since the number of rstudio::conf abstracts is small and since rstudio::conf 2020 is about to start at the time of preparing this project we focus on words and texts from RStudio’s ecosystem of packages and presentations.

Statistical thesaurus for words from RStudio’s ecosystem

Consider the focus words:

{"cloud","rstudio","package","tidyverse","dplyr","analyze","python","ggplot2","markdown","sql"}

Here is a statistical thesaurus for those words:

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Remark: Note that the computed thesaurus entries seem fairly “R-flavored.”

Similarity analysis diagrams

As expected the abstracts from rstudio::conf tend to cluster closely – note the square formed top-left in the plot of a similarity matrix based on extracted topics:

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Here is a similarity graph based on the matrix above:

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Here is a clustering (by “graph communities”) of the sub-graph highlighted in the plot above:

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Notebooks

Comparison observations

LSA pipelines specifications

The packages LSAMon-WL, [AAp1], and LSAMon-R, [AAp2], make the comparison easy – the codes of the specified workflows are nearly identical.

Here is the Mathematica code:

lsaObj =
  LSAMonUnit[aDesriptions]⟹
   LSAMonMakeDocumentTermMatrix[{}, Automatic]⟹
   LSAMonEchoDocumentTermMatrixStatistics⟹
   LSAMonApplyTermWeightFunctions["IDF", "TermFrequency", "Cosine"]⟹
   LSAMonExtractTopics["NumberOfTopics" -> 36, "MinNumberOfDocumentsPerTerm" -> 2, Method -> "ICA", MaxSteps -> 200]⟹
   LSAMonEchoTopicsTable["NumberOfTableColumns" -> 6];

Here is the R code:

lsaObj <- 
  LSAMonUnit(lsDescriptions) %>% 
  LSAMonMakeDocumentTermMatrix( stemWordsQ = FALSE, stopWords = stopwords::stopwords() ) %>% 
  LSAMonApplyTermWeightFunctions( "IDF", "TermFrequency", "Cosine" ) 
  LSAMonExtractTopics( numberOfTopics = 36, minNumberOfDocumentsPerTerm = 5, method = "NNMF", maxSteps = 20, profilingQ = FALSE ) %>% 
  LSAMonEchoTopicsTable( numberOfTableColumns = 6, wideFormQ = TRUE ) 

Graphs and graphics

Mathematica’s built-in graph functions make the exploration of the similarities much easier. (Than using R.)

Mathematica’s matrix plots provide more control and are more readily informative.

Sparse matrix objects with named rows and columns

R’s built-in sparse matrices with named rows and columns are great. LSAMon-WL utilizes a similar, specially implemented sparse matrix object, see [AA1, AAp3].

References

Articles

[AA1] Anton Antonov, A monad for Latent Semantic Analysis workflows, (2019), MathematicaForPrediction at GitHub.

[AA2] Anton Antonov, Text similarities through bags of words, (2020), SimplifiedMachineLearningWorkflows-book at GitHub.

Data

[AAd1] Anton Antonov, RStudio::conf-2019-abstracts.csv, (2020), SimplifiedMachineLearningWorkflows-book at GitHub.

[AAd2] Anton Antonov, Wolfram-Technology-Conference-2016-to-2019-abstracts.csv, (2020), SimplifiedMachineLearningWorkflows-book at GitHub.

Packages

[AAp1] Anton Antonov, Monadic Latent Semantic Analysis Mathematica package, (2017), MathematicaForPrediction at GitHub.

[AAp2] Anton Antonov, Latent Semantic Analysis Monad R package, (2019), R-packages at GitHub.

[AAp3] Anton Antonov, SSparseMatrix Mathematica package, (2018), MathematicaForPrediction at GitHub.

Wolfram Live-Coding Series on Latent Semantic Analysis workflows

In brief

The lectures on Latent Semantic Analysis (LSA) are to be recorded through Wolfram University (Wolfram U) in December 2019 and January-February 2020.

The lectures (as live-coding sessions)

  1. Overview Latent Semantic Analysis (LSA) typical problems and basic workflows.
    Answering preliminary anticipated questions.
    Here is the recording of the first session at Twitch .

    • What are the typical applications of LSA?
    • Why use LSA?
    • What it the fundamental philosophical or scientific assumption for LSA?
    • What is the most important and/or fundamental step of LSA?
    • What is the difference between LSA and Latent Semantic Indexing (LSI)?
    • What are the alternatives?
      • Using Neural Networks instead?
    • How is LSA used to derive similarities between two given texts?
    • How is LSA used to evaluate the proximity of phrases? (That have different words, but close semantic meaning.)
    • How the main dimension reduction methods compare?
  2. LSA for document collections.
    Here is the recording of the second session at Twitch .

    • Motivational example – full blown LSA workflow.
    • Fundamentals, text transformation (the hard way):
      • bag of words model,
      • stop words,
      • stemming.
    • The easy way with LSAMon.
    • “Eat your own dog food” example.
  3. Representation of the documents – the fundamental matrix object.
    Here is the recording of the third session at Twitch.

    • Review: last session’s example.
    • Review: the motivational example – full blown LSA workflow.
    • Linear vector space representation:
      • LSA’s most fundamental operation,
      • matrix with named rows and columns.
    • Pareto Principle adherence
      • for a document,
      • for a document collection, and
      • (in general.)
  4. Representation of unseen documents.
    Here is the recording of the fourth session at Twitch.

  5. LSA for image de-noising and classification. Here is the recording of the fifth session at Twitch.

    • Review: last session’s image collection topics extraction.
      • Let us try that two other datasets:
    • Image de-noising:
      • Using handwritten digits (again).
    • Image classification:
      • Handwritten digits.
  6. Further use cases.

A monad for Latent Semantic Analysis workflows

Introduction

In this document we describe the design and implementation of a (software programming) monad, [Wk1], for Latent Semantic Analysis workflows specification and execution. The design and implementation are done with Mathematica / Wolfram Language (WL).

What is Latent Semantic Analysis (LSA)? : A statistical method (or a technique) for finding relationships in natural language texts that is based on the so called Distributional hypothesis, [Wk2, Wk3]. (The Distributional hypothesis can be simply stated as “linguistic items with similar distributions have similar meanings”; for an insightful philosophical and scientific discussion see [MS1].) LSA can be seen as the application of Dimensionality reduction techniques over matrices derived with the Vector space model.

The goal of the monad design is to make the specification of LSA workflows (relatively) easy and straightforward by following a certain main scenario and specifying variations over that scenario.

The monad is named LSAMon and it is based on the State monad package “StateMonadCodeGenerator.m”, [AAp1, AA1], the document-term matrix making package “DocumentTermMatrixConstruction.m”, [AAp4, AA2], the Non-Negative Matrix Factorization (NNMF) package “NonNegativeMatrixFactorization.m”, [AAp5, AA2], and the package “SSparseMatrix.m”, [AAp2, AA5], that provides matrix objects with named rows and columns.

The data for this document is obtained from WL’s repository and it is manipulated into a certain ready-to-utilize form (and uploaded to GitHub.)

The monadic programming design is used as a Software Design Pattern. The LSAMon monad can be also seen as a Domain Specific Language (DSL) for the specification and programming of machine learning classification workflows.

Here is an example of using the LSAMon monad over a collection of documents that consists of 233 US state of union speeches.

LSAMon-Introduction-pipeline
LSAMon-Introduction-pipeline
LSAMon-Introduction-pipeline-echos
LSAMon-Introduction-pipeline-echos

The table above is produced with the package “MonadicTracing.m”, [AAp2, AA1], and some of the explanations below also utilize that package.

As it was mentioned above the monad LSAMon can be seen as a DSL. Because of this the monad pipelines made with LSAMon are sometimes called “specifications”.

Remark: In this document with “term” we mean “a word, a word stem, or other type of token.”

Remark: LSA and Latent Semantic Indexing (LSI) are considered more or less to be synonyms. I think that “latent semantic analysis” sounds more universal and that “latent semantic indexing” as a name refers to a specific Information Retrieval technique. Below we refer to “LSI functions” like “IDF” and “TF-IDF” that are applied within the generic LSA workflow.

Contents description

The document has the following structure.

  • The sections “Package load” and “Data load” obtain the needed code and data.
  • The sections “Design consideration” and “Monad design” provide motivation and design decisions rationale.
  • The sections “LSAMon overview”, “Monad elements”, and “The utilization of SSparseMatrix objects” provide technical descriptions needed to utilize the LSAMon monad .
    • (Using a fair amount of examples.)
  • The section “Unit tests” describes the tests used in the development of the LSAMon monad.
    • (The random pipelines unit tests are especially interesting.)
  • The section “Future plans” outlines future directions of development.
  • The section “Implementation notes” just says that LSAMon’s development process and this document follow the ones of the classifications workflows monad ClCon, [AA6].

Remark: One can read only the sections “Introduction”, “Design consideration”, “Monad design”, and “LSAMon overview”. That set of sections provide a fairly good, programming language agnostic exposition of the substance and novel ideas of this document.

Package load

The following commands load the packages [AAp1–AAp7]:

Import["https://raw.githubusercontent.com/antononcube/MathematicaForPrediction/master/MonadicProgramming/MonadicLatentSemanticAnalysis.m"]
Import["https://raw.githubusercontent.com/antononcube/MathematicaForPrediction/master/MonadicProgramming/MonadicTracing.m"]

Data load

In this section we load data that is used in the rest of the document. The text data was obtained through WL’s repository, transformed in a certain more convenient form, and uploaded to GitHub.

The text summarization and plots are done through LSAMon, which in turn uses the function RecordsSummary from the package “MathematicaForPredictionUtilities.m”, [AAp7].

Hamlet

textHamlet = 
  ToString /@ 
   Flatten[Import["https://raw.githubusercontent.com/antononcube/MathematicaVsR/master/Data/MathematicaVsR-Data-Hamlet.csv"]];

TakeLargestBy[
 Tally[DeleteStopwords[ToLowerCase[Flatten[TextWords /@ textHamlet]]]], #[[2]] &, 20]

(* {{"ham", 358}, {"lord", 225}, {"king", 196}, {"o", 124}, {"queen", 120}, 
    {"shall", 114}, {"good", 109}, {"hor", 109}, {"come",  107}, {"hamlet", 107}, 
    {"thou", 105}, {"let", 96}, {"thy", 86}, {"pol", 86}, {"like", 81}, {"sir", 75}, 
    {"'t", 75}, {"know", 74}, {"enter", 73}, {"th", 72}} *)

LSAMonUnit[textHamlet]⟹LSAMonMakeDocumentTermMatrix⟹LSAMonEchoDocumentTermMatrixStatistics;
LSAMon-Data-Load-Hamlet-echo
LSAMon-Data-Load-Hamlet-echo

USA state of union speeches

url = "https://github.com/antononcube/MathematicaVsR/blob/master/Data/MathematicaVsR-Data-StateOfUnionSpeeches.JSON.zip?raw=true";
str = Import[url, "String"];
filename = First@Import[StringToStream[str], "ZIP"];
aStateOfUnionSpeeches = Association@ImportString[Import[StringToStream[str], {"ZIP", filename, "String"}], "JSON"];

lsaObj = 
LSAMonUnit[aStateOfUnionSpeeches]⟹
LSAMonMakeDocumentTermMatrix⟹
LSAMonEchoDocumentTermMatrixStatistics["LogBase" -> 10];
LSAMon-Data-Load-StateOfUnionSpeeches-echo
LSAMon-Data-Load-StateOfUnionSpeeches-echo
TakeLargest[ColumnSumsAssociation[lsaObj⟹LSAMonTakeDocumentTermMatrix], 12]

(* <|"government" -> 7106, "states" -> 6502, "congress" -> 5023, 
     "united" -> 4847, "people" -> 4103, "year" -> 4022, 
     "country" -> 3469, "great" -> 3276, "public" -> 3094, "new" -> 3022, 
     "000" -> 2960, "time" -> 2922|> *)

Stop words

In some of the examples below we want to explicitly specify the stop words. Here are stop words derived using the built-in functions DictionaryLookup and DeleteStopwords.

stopWords = Complement[DictionaryLookup["*"], DeleteStopwords[DictionaryLookup["*"]]];

Short[stopWords]

(* {"a", "about", "above", "across", "add-on", "after", "again", <<290>>, 
   "you'll", "your", "you're", "yours", "yourself", "yourselves", "you've" } *)
    

Design considerations

The steps of the main LSA workflow addressed in this document follow.

  1. Get a collection of documents with associated ID’s.
  2. Create a document-term matrix.
    1. Here we apply the Bag-or-words model and Vector space model.
      1. The sequential order of the words is ignored and each document is represented as a point in a multi-dimensional vector space.
      2. That vector space axes correspond to the unique words found in the whole document collection.
    2. Consider the application of stemming rules.
    3. Consider the removal of stop words.
  3. Apply matrix-entries weighting functions.
    1. Those functions come from LSI.
    2. Functions like “IDF”, “TF-IDF”, “GFIDF”.
  4. Extract topics.
    1. One possible statistical way of doing this is with Dimensionality reduction.
    2. We consider using Singular Value Decomposition (SVD) and Non-Negative Matrix Factorization (NNMF).
  5. Make and display the topics table.
  6. Extract and display a statistical thesaurus of selected words.
  7. Map search queries or unseen documents over the extracted topics.
  8. Find the most important documents in the document collection. (Optional.)

The following flow-chart corresponds to the list of steps above.

LSA-worflows
LSA-worflows

In order to address:

  • the introduction of new elements in LSA workflows,
  • workflows elements variability, and
  • workflows iterative changes and refining,

it is beneficial to have a DSL for LSA workflows. We choose to make such a DSL through a functional programming monad, [Wk1, AA1].

Here is a quote from [Wk1] that fairly well describes why we choose to make a classification workflow monad and hints on the desired properties of such a monad.

[…] The monad represents computations with a sequential structure: a monad defines what it means to chain operations together. This enables the programmer to build pipelines that process data in a series of steps (i.e. a series of actions applied to the data), in which each action is decorated with the additional processing rules provided by the monad. […]

Monads allow a programming style where programs are written by putting together highly composable parts, combining in flexible ways the possible actions that can work on a particular type of data. […]

Remark: Note that quote from [Wk1] refers to chained monadic operations as “pipelines”. We use the terms “monad pipeline” and “pipeline” below.

Monad design

The monad we consider is designed to speed-up the programming of LSA workflows outlined in the previous section. The monad is named LSAMon for “Latent Semantic Analysis** Mon**ad”.

We want to be able to construct monad pipelines of the general form:

LSAMon-Monad-Design-formula-1
LSAMon-Monad-Design-formula-1

LSAMon is based on the State monad, [Wk1, AA1], so the monad pipeline form (1) has the following more specific form:

LSAMon-Monad-Design-formula-2
LSAMon-Monad-Design-formula-2

This means that some monad operations will not just change the pipeline value but they will also change the pipeline context.

In the monad pipelines of LSAMon we store different objects in the contexts for at least one of the following two reasons.

  1. The object will be needed later on in the pipeline, or
  2. The object is (relatively) hard to compute.

Such objects are document-term matrix, Dimensionality reduction factors and the related topics.

Let us list the desired properties of the monad.

  • Rapid specification of non-trivial LSA workflows.
  • The text data supplied to the monad can be: (i) a list of strings, or (ii) an association with string values.
  • The monad uses the Linear vector space model .
  • The document-term frequency matrix can be created after removing stop words and/or word stemming.
  • It is easy to specify and apply different LSI weight functions. (Like “IDF” or “GFIDF”.)
  • The monad can do dimension reduction with SVD and NNMF and corresponding matrix factors are retrievable with monad functions.
  • Documents (or query strings) external to the monad are easily mapped into monad’s Linear vector space of terms and Linear vector space of topics.
  • The monad allows of cursory examination and summarization of the data.
  • The pipeline values can be of different types. (Most monad functions modify the pipeline value; some modify the context; some just echo results.)
  • It is easy to obtain the pipeline value, context, and different context objects for manipulation outside of the monad.
  • It is easy to tabulate extracted topics and related statistical thesauri.

The LSAMon components and their interactions are fairly simple.

The main LSAMon operations implicitly put in the context or utilize from the context the following objects:

  • document-term matrix,
  • the factors obtained by matrix factorization algorithms,
  • LSI weight functions specifications,
  • extracted topics.

Note the that the monadic set of types of LSAMon pipeline values is fairly heterogenous and certain awareness of “the current pipeline value” is assumed when composing LSAMon pipelines.

Obviously, we can put in the context any object through the generic operations of the State monad of the package “StateMonadGenerator.m”, [AAp1].

LSAMon overview

When using a monad we lift certain data into the “monad space”, using monad’s operations we navigate computations in that space, and at some point we take results from it.

With the approach taken in this document the “lifting” into the LSAMon monad is done with the function LSAMonUnit. Results from the monad can be obtained with the functions LSAMonTakeValue, LSAMonContext, or with the other LSAMon functions with the prefix “LSAMonTake” (see below.)

Here is a corresponding diagram of a generic computation with the LSAMon monad:

LSAMon-pipeline
LSAMon-pipeline

Remark: It is a good idea to compare the diagram with formulas (1) and (2).

Let us examine a concrete LSAMon pipeline that corresponds to the diagram above. In the following table each pipeline operation is combined together with a short explanation and the context keys after its execution.

Here is the output of the pipeline:

The LSAMon functions are separated into four groups:

  • operations,
  • setters and droppers,
  • takers,
  • State Monad generic functions.

Monad functions interaction with the pipeline value and context

An overview of the those functions is given in the tables in next two sub-sections. The next section, “Monad elements”, gives details and examples for the usage of the LSAMon operations.

LSAMon-Overview-operations-context-interactions-table
LSAMon-Overview-operations-context-interactions-table
LSAMon-Overview-setters-droppers-takers-context-interactions-table
LSAMon-Overview-setters-droppers-takers-context-interactions-table

State monad functions

Here are the LSAMon State Monad functions (generated using the prefix “LSAMon”, [AAp1, AA1].)

LSAMon-Overview-StMon-usage-descriptions-table
LSAMon-Overview-StMon-usage-descriptions-table

Main monad functions

Here are the usage descriptions of the main (not monad-supportive) LSAMon functions, which are explained in detail in the next section.

LSAMon-Overview-operations-usage-descriptions-table
LSAMon-Overview-operations-usage-descriptions-table

Monad elements

In this section we show that LSAMon has all of the properties listed in the previous section.

The monad head

The monad head is LSAMon. Anything wrapped in LSAMon can serve as monad’s pipeline value. It is better though to use the constructor LSAMonUnit. (Which adheres to the definition in [Wk1].)

LSAMon[textHamlet, <||>]⟹LSAMonMakeDocumentTermMatrix[Automatic, Automatic]⟹LSAMonEchoFunctionContext[Short];

Lifting data to the monad

The function lifting the data into the monad LSAMon is LSAMonUnit.

The lifting to the monad marks the beginning of the monadic pipeline. It can be done with data or without data. Examples follow.

LSAMonUnit[textHamlet]⟹LSAMonMakeDocumentTermMatrix⟹LSAMonTakeDocumentTermMatrix

LSAMonUnit[]⟹LSAMonSetDocuments[textHamlet]⟹LSAMonMakeDocumentTermMatrix⟹LSAMonTakeDocumentTermMatrix

(See the sub-section “Setters, droppers, and takers” for more details of setting and taking values in LSAMon contexts.)

Currently the monad can deal with data in the following forms:

  • vectors of strings,
  • associations with string values.

Generally, WL makes it easy to extract columns datasets order to obtain vectors or matrices, so datasets are not currently supported in LSAMon.

Making of the document-term matrix

As it was mentioned above with “term” we mean “a word or a stemmed word”. Here is are examples of stemmed words.

WordData[#, "PorterStem"] & /@ {"consequential", "constitution", "forcing", ""}

The fundamental model of LSAMon is the so called Vector space model (or the closely related Bag-of-words model.) The document-term matrix is a linear vector space representation of the documents collection. That representation is further used in LSAMon to find topics and statistical thesauri.

Here is an example of ad hoc construction of a document-term matrix using a couple of paragraphs from “Hamlet”.

inds = {10, 19};
aTempText = AssociationThread[inds, textHamlet[[inds]]]

MatrixForm @ CrossTabulate[Flatten[KeyValueMap[Thread[{#1, #2}] &, TextWords /@ ToLowerCase[aTempText]], 1]]

When we construct the document-term matrix we (often) want to stem the words and (almost always) want to remove stop words. LSAMon’s function LSAMonMakeDocumentTermMatrix makes the document-term matrix and takes specifications for stemming and stop words.

lsaObj =
  LSAMonUnit[textHamlet]⟹
   LSAMonMakeDocumentTermMatrix["StemmingRules" -> Automatic, "StopWords" -> Automatic]⟹
   LSAMonEchoFunctionContext[ MatrixPlot[#documentTermMatrix] &]⟹
   LSAMonEchoFunctionContext[TakeLargest[ColumnSumsAssociation[#documentTermMatrix], 12] &];

We can retrieve the stop words used in a monad with the function LSAMonTakeStopWords.

Short[lsaObj⟹LSAMonTakeStopWords]

We can retrieve the stemming rules used in a monad with the function LSAMonTakeStemmingRules.

Short[lsaObj⟹LSAMonTakeStemmingRules]

The specification Automatic for stemming rules uses WordData[#,"PorterStem"]&.

Instead of the options style signature we can use positional signature.

  • Options style: LSAMonMakeDocumentTermMatrix["StemmingRules" -> {}, "StopWords" -> Automatic] .
  • Positional style: LSAMonMakeDocumentTermMatrix[{}, Automatic] .

LSI weight functions

After making the document-term matrix we will most likely apply LSI weight functions, [Wk2], like “GFIDF” and “TF-IDF”. (This follows the “standard” approach used in search engines for calculating weights for document-term matrices; see [MB1].)

Frequency matrix

We use the following definition of the frequency document-term matrix F.

Each entry fij of the matrix F is the number of occurrences of the term j in the document i.

Weights

Each entry of the weighted document-term matrix M derived from the frequency document-term matrix F is expressed with the formula

where gj – global term weight; lij – local term weight; di – normalization weight.

Various formulas exist for these weights and one of the challenges is to find the right combination of them when using different document collections.

Here is a table of weight functions formulas.

LSAMon-LSI-weight-functions-table
LSAMon-LSI-weight-functions-table

Computation specifications

LSAMon function LSAMonApplyTermWeightFunctions delegates the LSI weight functions application to the package “DocumentTermMatrixConstruction.m”, [AAp4].

Here is an example.

lsaHamlet = LSAMonUnit[textHamlet]⟹LSAMonMakeDocumentTermMatrix;
wmat =
  lsaHamlet⟹
   LSAMonApplyTermWeightFunctions["IDF", "TermFrequency", "Cosine"]⟹
   LSAMonTakeWeightedDocumentTermMatrix;

TakeLargest[ColumnSumsAssociation[wmat], 6]

Instead of using the positional signature of LSAMonApplyTermWeightFunctions we can specify the LSI functions using options.

wmat2 =
  lsaHamlet⟹
   LSAMonApplyTermWeightFunctions["GlobalWeightFunction" -> "IDF", "LocalWeightFunction" -> "TermFrequency", "NormalizerFunction" -> "Cosine"]⟹
   LSAMonTakeWeightedDocumentTermMatrix;

TakeLargest[ColumnSumsAssociation[wmat2], 6]

Here we are summaries of the non-zero values of the weighted document-term matrix derived with different combinations of global, local, and normalization weight functions.

Magnify[#, 0.8] &@Multicolumn[Framed /@ #, 6] &@Flatten@
  Table[
   (wmat =
     lsaHamlet⟹
      LSAMonApplyTermWeightFunctions[gw, lw, nf]⟹
      LSAMonTakeWeightedDocumentTermMatrix;
    RecordsSummary[SparseArray[wmat]["NonzeroValues"], 
     List@StringRiffle[{gw, lw, nf}, ", "]]),
   {gw, {"IDF", "GFIDF", "Binary", "None", "ColumnStochastic"}},
   {lw, {"Binary", "Log", "None"}},
   {nf, {"Cosine", "None", "RowStochastic"}}]
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LSAMon-LSI-weight-functions-combinations-application-table
LSAMon-LSI-weight-functions-combinations-application-table

Extracting topics

Streamlining topic extraction is one of the main reasons LSAMon was implemented. The topic extraction correspond to the so called “syntagmatic” relationships between the terms, [MS1].

Theoretical outline

The original weighed document-term matrix M is decomposed into the matrix factors W and H.

M ≈ W.H, W ∈ ℝm × k, H ∈ ℝk × n.

The i-th row of M is expressed with the i-th row of W multiplied by H.

The rows of H are the topics. SVD produces orthogonal topics; NNMF does not.

The i-the document of the collection corresponds to the i-th row W. Finding the Nearest Neighbors (NN’s) of the i-th document using the rows similarity of the matrix W gives document NN’s through topic similarity.

The terms correspond to the columns of H. Finding NN’s based on similarities of H’s columns produces statistical thesaurus entries.

The term groups provided by H’s rows correspond to “syntagmatic” relationships. Using similarities of H’s columns we can produce term clusters that correspond to “paradigmatic” relationships.

Computation specifications

Here is an example using the play “Hamlet” in which we specify additional stop words.

stopWords2 = {"enter", "exit", "[exit", "ham", "hor", "laer", "pol", "oph", "thy", "thee", "act", "scene"};

SeedRandom[2381]
lsaHamlet =
  LSAMonUnit[textHamlet]⟹
   LSAMonMakeDocumentTermMatrix["StemmingRules" -> Automatic, "StopWords" -> Join[stopWords, stopWords2]]⟹
   LSAMonApplyTermWeightFunctions["GlobalWeightFunction" -> "IDF", "LocalWeightFunction" -> "None", "NormalizerFunction" -> "Cosine"]⟹
   LSAMonExtractTopics["NumberOfTopics" -> 12, "MinNumberOfDocumentsPerTerm" -> 10, Method -> "NNMF", "MaxSteps" -> 20]⟹
   LSAMonEchoTopicsTable["NumberOfTableColumns" -> 6, "NumberOfTerms" -> 10];
LSAMon-Extracting-topics-Hamlet-topics-table
LSAMon-Extracting-topics-Hamlet-topics-table

Here is an example using the USA presidents “state of union” speeches.

SeedRandom[7681]
lsaSpeeches =
  LSAMonUnit[aStateOfUnionSpeeches]⟹
   LSAMonMakeDocumentTermMatrix["StemmingRules" -> Automatic,  "StopWords" -> Automatic]⟹
   LSAMonApplyTermWeightFunctions["GlobalWeightFunction" -> "IDF", "LocalWeightFunction" -> "None", "NormalizerFunction" -> "Cosine"]⟹
   LSAMonExtractTopics["NumberOfTopics" -> 36, "MinNumberOfDocumentsPerTerm" -> 40, Method -> "NNMF", "MaxSteps" -> 12]⟹
   LSAMonEchoTopicsTable["NumberOfTableColumns" -> 6, "NumberOfTerms" -> 10];
LSAMon-Extracting-topics-StateOfUnionSpeeches-topics-table
LSAMon-Extracting-topics-StateOfUnionSpeeches-topics-table

Note that in both examples:

  1. stemming is used when creating the document-term matrix,
  2. the default LSI re-weighting functions are used: “IDF”, “None”, “Cosine”,
  3. the dimension reduction algorithm NNMF is used.

Things to keep in mind.

  1. The interpretability provided by NNMF comes at a price.
  2. NNMF is prone to get stuck into local minima, so several topic extractions (and corresponding evaluations) have to be done.
  3. We would get different results with different NNMF runs using the same parameters. (NNMF uses random numbers initialization.)
  4. The NNMF topic vectors are not orthogonal.
  5. SVD is much faster than NNMF, but it topic vectors are hard to interpret.
  6. Generally, the topics derived with SVD are stable, they do not change with different runs with the same parameters.
  7. The SVD topics vectors are orthogonal, which provides for quick to find representations of documents not in the monad’s document collection.

The document-topic matrix W has column names that are automatically derived from the top three terms in each topic.

ColumnNames[lsaHamlet⟹LSAMonTakeW]

(* {"player-plai-welcom", "ro-lord-sir", "laert-king-attend",
    "end-inde-make", "state-room-castl", "daughter-pass-love",
    "hamlet-ghost-father", "father-thou-king",
    "rosencrantz-guildenstern-king", "ophelia-queen-poloniu",
    "answer-sir-mother", "horatio-attend-gentleman"} *)

Of course the row names of H have the same names.

RowNames[lsaHamlet⟹LSAMonTakeH]

(* {"player-plai-welcom", "ro-lord-sir", "laert-king-attend",
    "end-inde-make", "state-room-castl", "daughter-pass-love",
    "hamlet-ghost-father", "father-thou-king",
    "rosencrantz-guildenstern-king", "ophelia-queen-poloniu",
    "answer-sir-mother", "horatio-attend-gentleman"} *)

Extracting statistical thesauri

The statistical thesaurus extraction corresponds to the “paradigmatic” relationships between the terms, [MS1].

Here is an example over the State of Union speeches.

entryWords = {"bank", "war", "economy", "school", "port", "health", "enemy", "nuclear"};

lsaSpeeches⟹
  LSAMonExtractStatisticalThesaurus["Words" -> Map[WordData[#, "PorterStem"] &, entryWords], "NumberOfNearestNeighbors" -> 12]⟹
  LSAMonEchoStatisticalThesaurus;
LSAMon-Extracting-statistical-thesauri-echo
LSAMon-Extracting-statistical-thesauri-echo

In the code above: (i) the options signature style is used, (ii) the statistical thesaurus entry words are stemmed first.

We can also call LSAMonEchoStatisticalThesaurus directly without calling LSAMonExtractStatisticalThesaurus first.

 lsaSpeeches⟹
   LSAMonEchoStatisticalThesaurus["Words" -> Map[WordData[#, "PorterStem"] &, entryWords], "NumberOfNearestNeighbors" -> 12];
LSAMon-Extracting-statistical-thesauri-echo
LSAMon-Extracting-statistical-thesauri-echo

Mapping queries and documents to terms

One of the most natural operations is to find the representation of an arbitrary document (or sentence or a list of words) in monad’s Linear vector space of terms. This is done with the function LSAMonRepresentByTerms.

Here is an example in which a sentence is represented as a one-row matrix (in that space.)

obj =
  lsaHamlet⟹
   LSAMonRepresentByTerms["Hamlet, Prince of Denmark killed the king."]⟹
   LSAMonEchoValue;

Here we display only the non-zero columns of that matrix.

obj⟹
  LSAMonEchoFunctionValue[MatrixForm[Part[#, All, Keys[Select[SSparseMatrix`ColumnSumsAssociation[#], # > 0& ]]]]& ];

Transformation steps

Assume that LSAMonRepresentByTerms is given a list of sentences. Then that function performs the following steps.

1. The sentence is split into a list of words.

2. If monad’s document-term matrix was made by removing stop words the same stop words are removed from the list of words.

3. If monad’s document-term matrix was made by stemming the same stemming rules are applied to the list of words.

4. The LSI global weights and the LSI local weight and normalizer functions are applied to sentence’s contingency matrix.

Equivalent representation

Let us look convince ourselves that documents used in the monad to built the weighted document-term matrix have the same representation as the corresponding rows of that matrix.

Here is an association of documents from monad’s document collection.

inds = {6, 10};
queries = Part[lsaHamlet⟹LSAMonTakeDocuments, inds];
queries
 
(* <|"id.0006" -> "Getrude, Queen of Denmark, mother to Hamlet. Ophelia, daughter to Polonius.", 
     "id.0010" -> "ACT I. Scene I. Elsinore. A platform before the Castle."|> *)

lsaHamlet⟹
  LSAMonRepresentByTerms[queries]⟹
  LSAMonEchoFunctionValue[MatrixForm[Part[#, All, Keys[Select[SSparseMatrix`ColumnSumsAssociation[#], # > 0& ]]]]& ];
LSAMon-Mapping-queries-and-documents-to-topics-query-matrix
LSAMon-Mapping-queries-and-documents-to-topics-query-matrix
lsaHamlet⟹
  LSAMonEchoFunctionContext[MatrixForm[Part[Slot["weightedDocumentTermMatrix"], inds, Keys[Select[SSparseMatrix`ColumnSumsAssociation[Part[Slot["weightedDocumentTermMatrix"], inds, All]], # > 0& ]]]]& ];
LSAMon-Mapping-queries-and-documents-to-topics-context-sub-matrix
LSAMon-Mapping-queries-and-documents-to-topics-context-sub-matrix

Mapping queries and documents to topics

Another natural operation is to find the representation of an arbitrary document (or a list of words) in monad’s Linear vector space of topics. This is done with the function LSAMonRepresentByTopics.

Here is an example.

inds = {6, 10};
queries = Part[lsaHamlet⟹LSAMonTakeDocuments, inds];
Short /@ queries

(* <|"id.0006" -> "Getrude, Queen of Denmark, mother to Hamlet. Ophelia, daughter to Polonius.", 
     "id.0010" -> "ACT I. Scene I. Elsinore. A platform before the Castle."|> *)

lsaHamlet⟹
  LSAMonRepresentByTopics[queries]⟹
  LSAMonEchoFunctionValue[MatrixForm[Part[#, All, Keys[Select[SSparseMatrix`ColumnSumsAssociation[#], # > 0& ]]]]& ];
LSAMon-Mapping-queries-and-documents-to-terms-query-matrix
LSAMon-Mapping-queries-and-documents-to-terms-query-matrix
lsaHamlet⟹
  LSAMonEchoFunctionContext[MatrixForm[Part[Slot["W"], inds, Keys[Select[SSparseMatrix`ColumnSumsAssociation[Part[Slot["W"], inds, All]], # > 0& ]]]]& ];
LSAMon-Mapping-queries-and-documents-to-terms-query-matrix
LSAMon-Mapping-queries-and-documents-to-terms-query-matrix

Theory

In order to clarify what the function LSAMonRepresentByTopics is doing let us go through the formulas it is based on.

The original weighed document-term matrix M is decomposed into the matrix factors W and H.

M ≈ W.H, W ∈ ℝm × k, H ∈ ℝk × n

The i-th row of M is expressed with the i-th row of W multiplied by H.

mi ≈ wi.H.

For a query vector q0 ∈ ℝm we want to find its topics representation vector x ∈ ℝk:

q0 ≈ x.H.

Denote with H( − 1) the inverse or pseudo-inverse matrix of H. We have:

q0.H( − 1) ≈ (x.H).H( − 1) = x.(H.H( − 1)) = x.I,

x ∈ ℝk, H( − 1) ∈ ℝn × k, I ∈ ℝk × k.

In LSAMon for SVD H( − 1) = HT; for NNMF H( − 1) is the pseudo-inverse of H.

The vector x obtained with LSAMonRepresentByTopics.

Tags representation

Sometimes we want to find the topics representation of tags associated with monad’s documents and the tag-document associations are one-to-many. See [AA3].

Let us consider a concrete example – we want to find what topics correspond to the different presidents in the collection of State of Union speeches.

Here we find the document tags (president names in this case.)

tags = StringReplace[
   RowNames[
    lsaSpeeches⟹LSAMonTakeDocumentTermMatrix], 
   RegularExpression[".\\d\\d\\d\\d-\\d\\d-\\d\\d"] -> ""];
Short[tags]

Here is the number of unique tags (president names.)

Length[Union[tags]]
(* 42 *)

Here we compute the tag-topics representation matrix using the function LSAMonRepresentDocumentTagsByTopics.

tagTopicsMat =
 lsaSpeeches⟹
  LSAMonRepresentDocumentTagsByTopics[tags]⟹
  LSAMonTakeValue

Here is a heatmap plot of the tag-topics matrix made with the package “HeatmapPlot.m”, [AAp11].

HeatmapPlot[tagTopicsMat[[All, Ordering@ColumnSums[tagTopicsMat]]], DistanceFunction -> None, ImageSize -> Large]
LSAMon-Tags-representation-heatmap
LSAMon-Tags-representation-heatmap

Finding the most important documents

There are several algorithms we can apply for finding the most important documents in the collection. LSAMon utilizes two types algorithms: (1) graph centrality measures based, and (2) matrix factorization based. With certain graph centrality measures the two algorithms are equivalent. In this sub-section we demonstrate the matrix factorization algorithm (that uses SVD.)

Definition: The most important sentences have the most important words and the most important words are in the most important sentences.

That definition can be used to derive an iterations-based model that can be expressed with SVD or eigenvector finding algorithms, [LE1].

Here we pick an important part of the play “Hamlet”.

focusText = 
  First@Pick[textHamlet, StringMatchQ[textHamlet, ___ ~~ "to be" ~~ __ ~~ "or not to be" ~~ ___, IgnoreCase -> True]];
Short[focusText]

(* "Ham. To be, or not to be- that is the question: Whether 'tis ....y. 
    O, woe is me T' have seen what I have seen, see what I see!" *)

LSAMonUnit[StringSplit[ToLowerCase[focusText], {",", ".", ";", "!", "?"}]]⟹
  LSAMonMakeDocumentTermMatrix["StemmingRules" -> {}, "StopWords" -> Automatic]⟹
  LSAMonApplyTermWeightFunctions⟹
  LSAMonFindMostImportantDocuments[3]⟹
  LSAMonEchoFunctionValue[GridTableForm];
LSAMon-Find-most-important-documents-table
LSAMon-Find-most-important-documents-table

Setters, droppers, and takers

The values from the monad context can be set, obtained, or dropped with the corresponding “setter”, “dropper”, and “taker” functions as summarized in a previous section.

For example:

p = LSAMonUnit[textHamlet]⟹LSAMonMakeDocumentTermMatrix[Automatic, Automatic];

p⟹LSAMonTakeMatrix

If other values are put in the context they can be obtained through the (generic) function LSAMonTakeContext, [AAp1]:

Short@(p⟹QRMonTakeContext)["documents"]
 
(* <|"id.0001" -> "1604", "id.0002" -> "THE TRAGEDY OF HAMLET, PRINCE OF DENMARK", <<220>>, "id.0223" -> "THE END"|> *) 

Another generic function from [AAp1] is LSAMonTakeValue (used many times above.)

Here is an example of the “data dropper” LSAMonDropDocuments:

Keys[p⟹LSAMonDropDocuments⟹QRMonTakeContext]

(* {"documentTermMatrix", "terms", "stopWords", "stemmingRules"} *)

(The “droppers” simply use the state monad function LSAMonDropFromContext, [AAp1]. For example, LSAMonDropDocuments is equivalent to LSAMonDropFromContext[“documents”].)

The utilization of SSparseMatrix objects

The LSAMon monad heavily relies on SSparseMatrix objects, [AAp6, AA5], for internal representation of data and computation results.

A SSparseMatrix object is a matrix with named rows and columns.

Here is an example.

n = 6;
rmat = ToSSparseMatrix[
   SparseArray[{{1, 2} -> 1, {4, 5} -> 1}, {n, n}], 
   "RowNames" -> RandomSample[CharacterRange["A", "Z"], n], 
   "ColumnNames" -> RandomSample[CharacterRange["a", "z"], n]];
MatrixForm[rmat]
LSAMon-The-utilization-of-SSparseMatrix-random-matrix
LSAMon-The-utilization-of-SSparseMatrix-random-matrix

In this section we look into some useful SSparseMatrix idioms applied within LSAMon.

Visualize with sorted rows and columns

In some situations it is beneficial to sort rows and columns of the (weighted) document-term matrix.

docTermMat = 
  lsaSpeeches⟹LSAMonTakeDocumentTermMatrix;
MatrixPlot[docTermMat[[Ordering[RowSums[docTermMat]],  Ordering[ColumnSums[docTermMat]]]], MaxPlotPoints -> 300, ImageSize -> Large]
LSAMon-The-utilization-of-SSparseMatrix-lsaSpeeces-docTermMat-plot
LSAMon-The-utilization-of-SSparseMatrix-lsaSpeeces-docTermMat-plot

The most popular terms in the document collection can be found through the association of the column sums of the document-term matrix.

TakeLargest[ColumnSumsAssociation[lsaSpeeches⟹LSAMonTakeDocumentTermMatrix], 10]

(* <|"state" -> 8852, "govern" -> 8147, "year" -> 6362, "nation" -> 6182,
     "congress" -> 5040, "unit" -> 5040, "countri" -> 4504, 
     "peopl" -> 4306, "american" -> 3648, "law" -> 3496|> *)
     

Similarly for the lest popular terms.

TakeSmallest[
 ColumnSumsAssociation[
  lsaSpeeches⟹LSAMonTakeDocumentTermMatrix], 10]

(* <|"036" -> 1, "027" -> 1, "_____________________" -> 1, "0111" -> 1, 
     "006" -> 1, "0000" -> 1, "0001" -> 1, "______________________" -> 1, 
     "____" -> 1, "____________________" -> 1|> *)

Showing only non-zero columns

In some cases we want to show only columns of the data or computation results matrices that have non-zero elements.

Here is an example (similar to other examples in the previous section.)

lsaHamlet⟹
  LSAMonRepresentByTerms[{"this country is rotten", 
    "where is my sword my lord", 
    "poison in the ear should be in the play"}]⟹
  LSAMonEchoFunctionValue[ MatrixForm[#1[[All, Keys[Select[ColumnSumsAssociation[#1], #1 > 0 &]]]]] &];
LSAMon-The-utilization-of-SSparseMatrix-lsaHamlet-queries-to-terms-matrix
LSAMon-The-utilization-of-SSparseMatrix-lsaHamlet-queries-to-terms-matrix

In the pipeline code above: (i) from the list of queries a representation matrix is made, (ii) that matrix is assigned to the pipeline value, (iii) in the pipeline echo value function the non-zero columns are selected with by using the keys of the non-zero elements of the association obtained with ColumnSumsAssociation.

Similarities based on representation by terms

Here is way to compute the similarity matrix of different sets of documents that are not required to be in monad’s document collection.

sMat1 =
 lsaSpeeches⟹
  LSAMonRepresentByTerms[ aStateOfUnionSpeeches[[ Range[-5, -2] ]] ]⟹
  LSAMonTakeValue

sMat2 =
 lsaSpeeches⟹
  LSAMonRepresentByTerms[ aStateOfUnionSpeeches[[ Range[-7, -3] ]] ]⟹
  LSAMonTakeValue

MatrixForm[sMat1.Transpose[sMat2]]
LSAMon-The-utilization-of-SSparseMatrix-lsaSpeeches-terms-similarities-matrix
LSAMon-The-utilization-of-SSparseMatrix-lsaSpeeches-terms-similarities-matrix

Similarities based on representation by topics

Similarly to weighted Boolean similarities matrix computation above we can compute a similarity matrix using the topics representations. Note that an additional normalization steps is required.

sMat1 =
  lsaSpeeches⟹
   LSAMonRepresentByTopics[ aStateOfUnionSpeeches[[ Range[-5, -2] ]] ]⟹
   LSAMonTakeValue;
sMat1 = WeightTermsOfSSparseMatrix[sMat1, "None", "None", "Cosine"]

sMat2 =
  lsaSpeeches⟹
   LSAMonRepresentByTopics[ aStateOfUnionSpeeches[[ Range[-7, -3] ]] ]⟹ 
   LSAMonTakeValue;
sMat2 = WeightTermsOfSSparseMatrix[sMat2, "None", "None", "Cosine"]

MatrixForm[sMat1.Transpose[sMat2]]
LSAMon-The-utilization-of-SSparseMatrix-lsaSpeeches-topics-similarities-matrix
LSAMon-The-utilization-of-SSparseMatrix-lsaSpeeches-topics-similarities-matrix

Note the differences with the weighted Boolean similarity matrix in the previous sub-section – the similarities that are less than 1 are noticeably larger.

Unit tests

The development of LSAMon was done with two types of unit tests: (i) directly specified tests, [AAp7], and (ii) tests based on randomly generated pipelines, [AA8].

The unit test package should be further extended in order to provide better coverage of the functionalities and illustrate – and postulate – pipeline behavior.

Directly specified tests

Here we run the unit tests file “MonadicLatentSemanticAnalysis-Unit-Tests.wlt”, [AAp8].

AbsoluteTiming[
 testObject = TestReport["~/MathematicaForPrediction/UnitTests/MonadicLatentSemanticAnalysis-Unit-Tests.wlt"]
]

The natural language derived test ID’s should give a fairly good idea of the functionalities covered in [AAp3].

Values[Map[#["TestID"] &, testObject["TestResults"]]]

(* {"LoadPackage", "USASpeechesData", "HamletData", "StopWords", 
    "Make-document-term-matrix-1", "Make-document-term-matrix-2",
    "Apply-term-weights-1", "Apply-term-weights-2", "Topic-extraction-1",
    "Topic-extraction-2", "Topic-extraction-3", "Topic-extraction-4",
    "Statistical-thesaurus-1", "Topics-representation-1",
    "Take-document-term-matrix-1", "Take-weighted-document-term-matrix-1",
    "Take-document-term-matrix-2", "Take-weighted-document-term-matrix-2",
    "Take-terms-1", "Take-Factors-1", "Take-Factors-2", "Take-Factors-3",
    "Take-Factors-4", "Take-StopWords-1", "Take-StemmingRules-1"} *)

Random pipelines tests

Since the monad LSAMon is a DSL it is natural to test it with a large number of randomly generated “sentences” of that DSL. For the LSAMon DSL the sentences are LSAMon pipelines. The package “MonadicLatentSemanticAnalysisRandomPipelinesUnitTests.m”, [AAp9], has functions for generation of LSAMon random pipelines and running them as verification tests. A short example follows.

Generate pipelines:

SeedRandom[234]
pipelines = MakeLSAMonRandomPipelines[100];
Length[pipelines]

(* 100 *)

Here is a sample of the generated pipelines:

LSAMon-Unit-tests-random-pipelines-sample-table
LSAMon-Unit-tests-random-pipelines-sample-table

Here we run the pipelines as unit tests:

AbsoluteTiming[
 res = TestRunLSAMonPipelines[pipelines, "Echo" -> False];
]

From the test report results we see that a dozen tests failed with messages, all of the rest passed.

rpTRObj = TestReport[res]

(The message failures, of course, have to be examined – some bugs were found in that way. Currently the actual test messages are expected.)

Future plans

Dimension reduction extensions

It would be nice to extend the Dimension reduction functionalities of LSAMon to include other algorithms like Independent Component Analysis (ICA), [Wk5]. Ideally with LSAMon we can do comparisons between SVD, NNMF, and ICA like the image de-nosing based comparison explained in [AA8].

Another direction is to utilize Neural Networks for the topic extraction and making of statistical thesauri.

Conversational agent

Since LSAMon is a DSL it can be relatively easily interfaced with a natural language interface.

Here is an example of natural language commands parsed into LSA code using the package [AAp13].

LSAMon-Future-directions-parsed-LSA-commands-table
LSAMon-Future-directions-parsed-LSA-commands-table

Implementation notes

The implementation methodology of the LSAMon monad packages [AAp3, AAp9] followed the methodology created for the ClCon monad package [AAp10, AA6]. Similarly, this document closely follows the structure and exposition of the `ClCon monad document “A monad for classification workflows”, [AA6].

A lot of the functionalities and signatures of LSAMon were designed and programed through considerations of natural language commands specifications given to a specialized conversational agent.

References

Packages

[AAp1] Anton Antonov, State monad code generator Mathematica package, (2017), MathematicaForPrediction at GitHub*.

[AAp2] Anton Antonov, Monadic tracing Mathematica package, (2017), MathematicaForPrediction at GitHub*.

[AAp3] Anton Antonov, Monadic Latent Semantic Analysis Mathematica package, (2017), MathematicaForPrediction at GitHub.

[AAp4] Anton Antonov, Implementation of document-term matrix construction and re-weighting functions in Mathematica, (2013), MathematicaForPrediction at GitHub.

[AAp5] Anton Antonov, Non-Negative Matrix Factorization algorithm implementation in Mathematica, (2013), MathematicaForPrediction at GitHub.

[AAp6] Anton Antonov, SSparseMatrix Mathematica package, (2018), MathematicaForPrediction at GitHub.

[AAp7] Anton Antonov, MathematicaForPrediction utilities, (2014), MathematicaForPrediction at GitHub.

[AAp8] Anton Antonov, Monadic Latent Semantic Analysis unit tests, (2019), MathematicaVsR at GitHub.

[AAp9] Anton Antonov, Monadic Latent Semantic Analysis random pipelines Mathematica unit tests, (2019), MathematicaForPrediction at GitHub.

[AAp10] Anton Antonov, Monadic contextual classification Mathematica package, (2017), MathematicaForPrediction at GitHub.

[AAp11] Anton Antonov, Heatmap plot Mathematica package, (2017), MathematicaForPrediction at GitHub.

[AAp12] Anton Antonov,
Independent Component Analysis Mathematica package, MathematicaForPrediction at GitHub.

[AAp13] Anton Antonov, Latent semantic analysis workflows grammar in EBNF, (2018), ConverasationalAgents at GitHub.

MathematicaForPrediction articles

[AA1] Anton Antonov, “Monad code generation and extension”, (2017), MathematicaForPrediction at GitHub.

[AA2] Anton Antonov, “Topic and thesaurus extraction from a document collection”, (2013), MathematicaForPrediction at GitHub.

[AA3] Anton Antonov, “The Great conversation in USA presidential speeches”, (2017), MathematicaForPrediction at WordPress.

[AA4] Anton Antonov, “Contingency tables creation examples”, (2016), MathematicaForPrediction at WordPress.

[AA5] Anton Antonov, “RSparseMatrix for sparse matrices with named rows and columns”, (2015), MathematicaForPrediction at WordPress.

[AA6] Anton Antonov, “A monad for classification workflows”, (2018), MathematicaForPrediction at WordPress.

[AA7] Anton Antonov, “Independent component analysis for multidimensional signals”, (2016), MathematicaForPrediction at WordPress.

[AA8] Anton Antonov, “Comparison of PCA, NNMF, and ICA over image de-noising”, (2016), MathematicaForPrediction at WordPress.

Other

[Wk1] Wikipedia entry, Monad,

[Wk2] Wikipedia entry, Latent semantic analysis,

[Wk3] Wikipedia entry, Distributional semantics,

[Wk4] Wikipedia entry, Non-negative matrix factorization,

[LE1] Lars Elden, Matrix Methods in Data Mining and Pattern Recognition, 2007, SIAM. ISBN-13: 978-0898716269.

[MB1] Michael W. Berry & Murray Browne, Understanding Search Engines: Mathematical Modeling and Text Retrieval, 2nd. ed., 2005, SIAM. ISBN-13: 978-0898715811.

[MS1] Magnus Sahlgren, “The Distributional Hypothesis”, (2008), Rivista di Linguistica. 20 (1): 33[Dash]53.

[PS1] Patrick Scheibe, Mathematica (Wolfram Language) support for IntelliJ IDEA, (2013-2018), Mathematica-IntelliJ-Plugin at GitHub.

The Great conversation in USA presidential speeches

Introduction

This document shows a way to chart in Mathematica / WL the evolution of topics in collections of texts. The making of this document (and related code) is primarily motivated by the fascinating concept of the Great Conversation, [Wk1, MA1]. In brief, all western civilization books are based on 103 great ideas; if we find the great ideas each significant book is based on we can construct a time-line (spanning centuries) of the great conversation between the authors; see [MA1, MA2, MA3].

Instead of finding the great ideas in a text collection we extract topics statistically, using dimension reduction with Non-Negative Matrix Factorization (NNMF), [AAp3, AA1, AA2].

The presented computational results are based on the text collections of State of the Union speeches of USA presidents [D2]. The code in this document can be easily configured to use the much smaller text collection [D1] available online and in Mathematica/WL. (The collection [D1] is fairly small, 51 documents; the collection [D2] is much larger, 2453 documents.)

The procedures (and code) described in this document, of course, work on other types of text collections. For example: movie reviews, podcasts, editorial articles of a magazine, etc.

A secondary objective of this document is to illustrate the use of the monadic programming pipeline as a Software design pattern, [AA3]. In order to make the code concise in this document I wrote the package MonadicLatentSemanticAnalysis.m, [AAp5]. Compare with the code given in [AA1].

The very first version of this document was written for the 2017 summer course “Data Science for the Humanities” at the University of Oxford, UK.

Outline of the procedure applied

The procedure described in this document has the following steps.

  1. Get a collection of documents with known dates of publishing.
    • Or other types of tags associated with the documents.
  2. Do preliminary analysis of the document collection.
    • Number of documents; number of unique words.

    • Number of words per document; number of documents per word.

    • (Some of the statistics of this step are done easier after the Linear vector space representation step.)

  3. Optionally perform Natural Language Processing (NLP) tasks.

    1. Obtain or derive stop words.

    2. Remove stop words from the texts.

    3. Apply stemming to the words in the texts.

  4. Linear vector space representation.

    • This means that we represent the collection with a document-word matrix.

    • Each unique word is a basis vector in that space.

    • For each document the corresponding point in that space is derived from the number of appearances of document’s words.

  5. Extract topics.

    • In this document NNMF is used.

    • In order to obtain better results with NNMF some experimentation and refinements of the topics search have to be done.

  6. Map the documents over the extracted topics.

    • The original matrix of the vector space representation is replaced with a matrix with columns representing topics (instead of words.)
  7. Order the topics according to their presence across the years (or other related tags).
    • This can be done with hierarchical clustering.

    • Alternatively,

      1. for a given topic find the weighted mean of the years of the documents that have that topic, and

      2. order the topics according to those mean values.

  8. Visualize the evolution of the documents according to their topics.

    1. This can be done by simply finding the contingency matrix year vs topic.

    2. For the president speeches we can use the president names for time-line temporal axis instead of years.

      • Because the corresponding time intervals of president office occupation do not overlap.

Remark: Some of the functions used in this document combine several steps into one function call (with corresponding parameters.)

Packages

This loads the packages [AAp1-AAp8]:

Import["https://raw.githubusercontent.com/antononcube/MathematicaForPrediction/master/MonadicProgramming/MonadicLatentSemanticAnalysis.m"];
Import["https://raw.githubusercontent.com/antononcube/MathematicaForPrediction/master/MonadicProgramming/MonadicTracing.m"]
Import["https://raw.githubusercontent.com/antononcube/MathematicaForPrediction/master/Misc/HeatmapPlot.m"];
Import["https://raw.githubusercontent.com/antononcube/MathematicaForPrediction/master/Misc/RSparseMatrix.m"];

(Note that some of the packages that are imported automatically by [AAp5].)

The functions of the central package in this document, [AAp5], have the prefix “LSAMon”. Here is a sample of those names:

Short@Names["LSAMon*"]

(* {"LSAMon", "LSAMonAddToContext", "LSAMonApplyTermWeightFunctions", <>, "LSAMonUnit", "LSAMonUnitQ", "LSAMonWhen"} *)

Data load

In this section we load a text collection from a specified source.

The text collection from “Presidential Nomination Acceptance Speeches”, [D1], is small and can be used for multiple code verifications and re-runnings. The “State of Union addresses of USA presidents” text collection from [D2] was converted to a Mathematica/WL object by Christopher Wolfram (and sent to me in a private communication.) The text collection [D2] provides far more interesting results (and they are shown below.)

If[True,
  speeches = ResourceData[ResourceObject["Presidential Nomination Acceptance Speeches"]];
  names = StringSplit[Normal[speeches[[All, "Person"]]][[All, 2]], "::"][[All, 1]],

  (*ELSE*)
  (*State of the union addresses provided by Christopher Wolfram. *)      
  Get["~/MathFiles/Digital humanities/Presidential speeches/speeches.mx"];
  names = Normal[speeches[[All, "Name"]]];
];

dates = Normal[speeches[[All, "Date"]]];
texts = Normal[speeches[[All, "Text"]]];

Dimensions[speeches]

(* {2453, 4} *)

Basic statistics for the texts

Using different contingency matrices we can derive basic statistical information about the document collection. (The document-word matrix is a contingency matrix.)

First we convert the text data in long-form:

docWordRecords = 
  Join @@ MapThread[
    Thread[{##}] &, {Range@Length@texts, names, 
     DateString[#, {"Year"}] & /@ dates, 
     DeleteStopwords@*TextWords /@ ToLowerCase[texts]}, 1];

Here is a sample of the rows of the long-form:

GridTableForm[RandomSample[docWordRecords, 6], 
 TableHeadings -> {"document index", "name", "year", "word"}]

Here is a summary:

Multicolumn[
 RecordsSummary[docWordRecords, {"document index", "name", "year", "word"}, "MaxTallies" -> 8], 4, Dividers -> All, Alignment -> Top]

Using the long form we can compute the document-word matrix:

ctMat = CrossTabulate[docWordRecords[[All, {1, -1}]]];
MatrixPlot[Transpose@Sort@Map[# &, Transpose[ctMat@"XTABMatrix"]], 
 MaxPlotPoints -> 300, ImageSize -> 800, 
 AspectRatio -> 1/3]

Here is the president-word matrix:

ctMat = CrossTabulate[docWordRecords[[All, {2, -1}]]];
MatrixPlot[Transpose@Sort@Map[# &, Transpose[ctMat@"XTABMatrix"]], MaxPlotPoints -> 300, ImageSize -> 800, AspectRatio -> 1/3]

Here is an alternative way to compute text collection statistics through the document-word matrix computed within the monad LSAMon:

LSAMonUnit[texts]⟹LSAMonEchoTextCollectionStatistics[];

Procedure application

Stop words

Here is one way to obtain stop words:

stopWords = Complement[DictionaryLookup["*"], DeleteStopwords[DictionaryLookup["*"]]];
Length[stopWords]
RandomSample[stopWords, 12]

(* 304 *)

(* {"has", "almost", "next", "WHO", "seeming", "together", "rather", "runners-up", "there's", "across", "cannot", "me"} *)

We can complete this list with additional stop words derived from the collection itself. (Not done here.)

Linear vector space representation and dimension reduction

Remark: In the rest of the document we use “term” to mean “word” or “stemmed word”.

The following code makes a document-term matrix from the document collection, exaggerates the representations of the terms using “TF-IDF”, and then does topic extraction through dimension reduction. The dimension reduction is done with NNMF; see [AAp3, AA1, AA2].

SeedRandom[312]

mObj =
  LSAMonUnit[texts]⟹
   LSAMonMakeDocumentTermMatrix[{}, stopWords]⟹
   LSAMonApplyTermWeightFunctions[]⟹
   LSAMonTopicExtraction[Max[5, Ceiling[Length[texts]/100]], 60, 12, "MaxSteps" -> 6, "PrintProfilingInfo" -> True];

This table shows the pipeline commands above with comments:

Detailed description

The monad object mObj has a context of named values that is an Association with the following keys:

Keys[mObj⟹LSAMonTakeContext]

(* {"texts", "docTermMat", "terms", "wDocTermMat", "W", "H", "topicColumnPositions", "automaticTopicNames"} *)

Let us clarify the values by briefly describing the computational steps.

  1. From texts we derive the document-term matrix \text{docTermMat}\in \mathbb{R}^{m \times n}, where n is the number of documents and m is the number of terms.
    • The terms are words or stemmed words.

    • This is done with LSAMonMakeDocumentTermMatrix.

  2. From docTermMat is derived the (weighted) matrix wDocTermMat using “TF-IDF”.

    • This is done with LSAMonApplyTermWeightFunctions.
  3. Using docTermMat we find the terms that are present in sufficiently large number of documents and their column indices are assigned to topicColumnPositions.

  4. Matrix factorization.

    1. Assign to \text{wDocTermMat}[[\text{All},\text{topicsColumnPositions}]], \text{wDocTermMat}[[\text{All},\text{topicsColumnPositions}]]\in \mathbb{R}^{m_1 \times n}, where m_1 = |topicsColumnPositions|.

    2. Compute using NNMF the factorization \text{wDocTermMat}[[\text{All},\text{topicsColumnPositions}]]\approx H W, where W\in \mathbb{R}^{k \times n}, H\in \mathbb{R}^{k \times m_1}, and k is the number of topics.

    3. The values for the keys “W, “H”, and “topicColumnPositions” are computed and assigned by LSAMonTopicExtraction.

  5. From the top terms of each topic are derived automatic topic names and assigned to the key automaticTopicNames in the monad context.

    • Also done by LSAMonTopicExtraction.

Statistical thesaurus

At this point in the object mObj we have the factors of NNMF. Using those factors we can find a statistical thesaurus for a given set of words. The following code calculates such a thesaurus, and echoes it in a tabulated form.

queryWords = {"arms", "banking", "economy", "education", "freedom", 
   "tariff", "welfare", "disarmament", "health", "police"};

mObj⟹
  LSAMonStatisticalThesaurus[queryWords, 12]⟹
  LSAMonEchoStatisticalThesaurus[];

By observing the thesaurus entries we can see that the words in each entry are semantically related.

Note, that the word “welfare” strongly associates with “[applause]”. The rest of the query words do not, which can be seen by examining larger thesaurus entries:

thRes =
  mObj⟹
   LSAMonStatisticalThesaurus[queryWords, 100]⟹
   LSAMonTakeValue;
Cases[thRes, "[applause]", Infinity]

(* {"[applause]", "[applause]"} *)

The second “[applause]” associated word is “education”.

Detailed description

The statistical thesaurus is computed by using the NNMF’s right factor H.

For a given term, its corresponding column in H is found and the nearest neighbors of that column are found in the space \mathbb{R}^{m_1} using Euclidean norm.

Extracted topics

The topics are the rows of the right factor H of the factorization obtained with NNMF .

Let us tabulate the topics found above with LSAMonTopicExtraction :

mObj⟹ LSAMonEchoTopicsTable["NumberOfTerms" -> 6, "MagnificationFactor" -> 0.8, Appearance -> "Horizontal"];

Map documents over the topics

The function LSAMonTopicsRepresentation finds the top outliers for each row of NNMF’s left factor W. (The outliers are found using the package [AAp4].) The obtained list of indices gives the topic representation of the collection of texts.

Short@(mObj⟹LSAMonTopicsRepresentation[]⟹LSAMonTakeContext)["docTopicIndices"]

{{53}, {47, 53}, {25}, {46}, {44}, {15, 42}, {18}, <>, {30}, {33}, {7, 60}, {22, 25}, {12, 13, 25, 30, 49, 59}, {48, 57}, {14, 41}}

Further we can see that if the documents have tags associated with them — like author names or dates — we can make a contingency matrix of tags vs topics. (See [AAp8, AA4].) This is also done by the function LSAMonTopicsRepresentation that takes tags as an argument. If the tags argument is Automatic, then the tags are simply the document indices.

Here is a an example:

rsmat = mObj⟹LSAMonTopicsRepresentation[Automatic]⟹LSAMonTakeValue;
MatrixPlot[rsmat]

Here is an example of calling the function LSAMonTopicsRepresentation with arbitrary tags.

rsmat = mObj⟹LSAMonTopicsRepresentation[DateString[#, "MonthName"] & /@ dates]⟹LSAMonTakeValue;
MatrixPlot[rsmat]

Note that the matrix plots above are very close to the charting of the Great conversation that we are looking for. This can be made more obvious by observing the row names and columns names in the tabulation of the transposed matrix rsmat:

Magnify[#, 0.6] &@MatrixForm[Transpose[rsmat]]

Charting the great conversation

In this section we show several ways to chart the Great Conversation in the collection of speeches.

There are several possible ways to make the chart: using a time-line plot, using heat-map plot, and using appropriate tabulation (with MatrixForm or Grid).

In order to make the code in this section more concise the package RSparseMatrix.m, [AAp7, AA5], is used.

Topic name to topic words

This command makes an Association between the topic names and the top topic words.

aTopicNameToTopicTable = 
  AssociationThread[(mObj⟹LSAMonTakeContext)["automaticTopicNames"], 
   mObj⟹LSAMonTopicsTable["NumberOfTerms" -> 12]⟹LSAMonTakeValue];

Here is a sample:

Magnify[#, 0.7] &@ aTopicNameToTopicTable[[1 ;; 3]]

Time-line plot

This command makes a contingency matrix between the documents and the topics (as described above):

rsmat = ToRSparseMatrix[mObj⟹LSAMonTopicsRepresentation[Automatic]⟹LSAMonTakeValue]

This time-plot shows great conversation in the USA presidents state of union speeches:

TimelinePlot[
 Association@
  MapThread[
   Tooltip[#2, aTopicNameToTopicTable[#2]] -> dates[[ToExpression@#1]] &, 
   Transpose[RSparseMatrixToTriplets[rsmat]]], 
 PlotTheme -> "Detailed", ImageSize -> 1000, AspectRatio -> 1/2, PlotLayout -> "Stacked"]

The plot is too cluttered, so it is a good idea to investigate other visualizations.

Topic vs president heatmap

We can use the USA president names instead of years in the Great Conversation chart because the USA presidents terms do not overlap.

This makes a contingency matrix presidents vs topics:

rsmat2 = ToRSparseMatrix[
   mObj⟹LSAMonTopicsRepresentation[
     names]⟹LSAMonTakeValue];

Here we compute the chronological order of the presidents based on the dates of their speeches:

nameToMeanYearRules = 
  Map[#[[1, 1]] -> Mean[N@#[[All, 2]]] &, 
   GatherBy[MapThread[List, {names, ToExpression[DateString[#, "Year"]] & /@ dates}], First]];
ordRowInds = Ordering[RowNames[rsmat2] /. nameToMeanYearRules];

This heat-map plot uses the (experimental) package HeatmapPlot.m, [AAp6]:

Block[{m = rsmat2[[ordRowInds, All]]},
 HeatmapPlot[SparseArray[m], RowNames[m], 
  Thread[Tooltip[ColumnNames[m], aTopicNameToTopicTable /@ ColumnNames[m]]],
  DistanceFunction -> {None, Sort}, ImageSize -> 1000, 
  AspectRatio -> 1/2]
 ]

Note the value of the option DistanceFunction: there is not re-ordering of the rows and columns are reordered by sorting. Also, the topics on the horizontal names have tool-tips.

References

Text data

[D1] Wolfram Data Repository, "Presidential Nomination Acceptance Speeches".

[D2] US Presidents, State of the Union Addresses, Trajectory, 2016. ‪ISBN‬1681240009, 9781681240008‬.

[D3] Gerhard Peters, "Presidential Nomination Acceptance Speeches and Letters, 1880-2016", The American Presidency Project.

[D4] Gerhard Peters, "State of the Union Addresses and Messages", The American Presidency Project.

Packages

[AAp1] Anton Antonov, MathematicaForPrediction utilities, (2014), MathematicaForPrediction at GitHub.

[AAp2] Anton Antonov, Implementation of document-term matrix construction and re-weighting functions in Mathematica(2013), MathematicaForPrediction at GitHub.

[AAp3] Anton Antonov, Implementation of the Non-Negative Matrix Factorization algorithm in Mathematica, (2013), MathematicaForPrediction at GitHub.

[AAp4] Anton Antonov, Implementation of one dimensional outlier identifying algorithms in Mathematica, (2013), MathematicaForPrediction at GitHub.

[AAp5] Anton Antonov, Monadic latent semantic analysis Mathematica package, (2017), MathematicaForPrediction at GitHub.

[AAp6] Anton Antonov, Heatmap plot Mathematica package, (2017), MathematicaForPrediction at GitHub.

[AAp7] Anton Antonov, RSparseMatrix Mathematica package, (2015), MathematicaForPrediction at GitHub.

[AAp8] Anton Antonov, Cross tabulation implementation in Mathematica, (2017), MathematicaForPrediction at GitHub.

Books and articles

[AA1] Anton Antonov, "Topic and thesaurus extraction from a document collection", (2013), MathematicaForPrediction at GitHub.

[AA2] Anton Antonov, "Statistical thesaurus from NPR podcasts", (2013), MathematicaForPrediction at WordPress blog.

[AA3] Anton Antonov, "Monad code generation and extension", (2017), MathematicaForPrediction at GitHub.

[AA4] Anton Antonov, "Contingency tables creation examples", (2016), MathematicaForPrediction at WordPress blog.

[AA5] Anton Antonov, "RSparseMatrix for sparse matrices with named rows and columns", (2015), MathematicaForPrediction at WordPress blog.

[Wk1] Wikipedia entry, Great Conversation.

[MA1] Mortimer Adler, "The Great Conversation Revisited," in The Great Conversation: A Peoples Guide to Great Books of the Western World, Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc., Chicago,1990, p. 28.

[MA2] Mortimer Adler, "Great Ideas".

[MA3] Mortimer Adler, "How to Think About the Great Ideas: From the Great Books of Western Civilization", 2000, Open Court.

Phone dialing conversational agent

Introduction

This blog post proclaims the first committed project in the repository ConversationalAgents at GitHub. The project has designs and implementations of a phone calling conversational agent that aims at providing the following functionalities:

  • contacts retrieval (querying, filtering, selection),
  • contacts prioritization, and
  • phone call (work flow) handling.
  • The design is based on a Finite State Machine (FSM) and context free grammar(s) for commands that switch between the states of the FSM. The grammar is designed as a context free grammar rules of a Domain Specific Language (DSL) in Extended Backus-Naur Form (EBNF). (For more details on DSLs design and programming see [1].)

    The (current) implementation is with Wolfram Language (WL) / Mathematica using the functional parsers package [2, 3].

    This movie gives an overview from an end user perspective.

    General design

    The design of the Phone Conversational Agent (PhCA) is derived in a straightforward manner from the typical work flow of calling a contact (using, say, a mobile phone.)

    The main goals for the conversational agent are the following:

    1. contacts retrieval — search, filtering, selection — using both natural language commands and manual interaction,
    2. intuitive integration with the usual work flow of phone calling.

    An additional goal is to facilitate contacts retrieval by determining the most appropriate contacts in query responses. For example, while driving to work by pressing the dial button we might prefer the contacts of an up-coming meeting to be placed on top of the prompting contacts list.

    In this project we assume that the voice to text conversion is done with an external (reliable) component.

    It is assumed that an user of PhCA can react to both visual and spoken query results.

    The main algorithm is the following.

    1) Parse and interpret a natural language command.

    2) If the command is a contacts query that returns a single contact then call that contact.

    3) If the command is a contacts query that returns multiple contacts then :

    3.1) use natural language commands to refine and filter the query results,

    3.2) until a single contact is obtained. Call that single contact.

    4) If other type of command is given act accordingly.

    PhCA has commands for system usage help and for canceling the current contact search and starting over.

    The following FSM diagram gives the basic structure of PhCA:

    "Phone-conversational-agent-FSM-and-DB"

    This movie demonstrates how different natural language commands switch the FSM states.

    Grammar design

    The derived grammar describes sentences that: 1. fit end user expectations, and 2. are used to switch between the FSM states.

    Because of the simplicity of the FSM and the natural language commands only few iterations were done with the Parser-generation-by-grammars work flow.

    The base grammar is given in the file "./Mathematica/PhoneCallingDialogsGrammarRules.m" in EBNF used by [2].

    Here are parsing results of a set of test natural language commands:

    "PhCA-base-grammar-test-queries-125"

    using the WL command:

    ParsingTestTable[ParseJust[pCALLCONTACT\[CirclePlus]pCALLFILTER], ToLowerCase /@ queries]
     

    (Note that according to PhCA’s FSM diagram the parsing of pCALLCONTACT is separated from pCALLFILTER, hence the need to combine the two parsers in the code line above.)

    PhCA’s FSM implementation provides interpretation and context of the functional programming expressions obtained by the parser.

    In the running script "./Mathematica/PhoneDialingAgentRunScript.m" the grammar parsers are modified to do successful parsing using data elements of the provided fake address book.

    The base grammar can be extended with the "Time specifications grammar" in order to include queries based on temporal commands.

    Running

    In order to experiment with the agent just run in Mathematica the command:

    Import["https://raw.githubusercontent.com/antononcube/ConversationalAgents/master/Projects/PhoneDialingDialogsAgent/Mathematica/PhoneDialingAgentRunScript.m"]

    The imported Wolfram Language file, "./Mathematica/PhoneDialingAgentRunScript.m", uses a fake address book based on movie creators metadata. The code structure of "./Mathematica/PhoneDialingAgentRunScript.m" allows easy experimentation and modification of the running steps.

    Here are several screen-shots illustrating a particular usage path (scan left-to-right):

    "PhCA-1-call-someone-from-x-men"" "PhCA-2-a-producer" "PhCA-3-the-third-one

    See this movie demonstrating a PhCA run.

    References

    [1] Anton Antonov, "Creating and programming domain specific languages", (2016), MathematicaForPrediction at WordPress blog.

    [2] Anton Antonov, Functional parsers, Mathematica package, MathematicaForPrediction at GitHub, 2014.

    [3] Anton Antonov, "Natural language processing with functional parsers", (2014), MathematicaForPrediction at WordPress blog.

    Text analysis of Trump tweets

    Introduction

    This post is to proclaim the MathematicaVsR at GitHub project “Text analysis of Trump tweets” in which we compare Mathematica and R over text analyses of Twitter messages made by Donald Trump (and his staff) before the USA president elections in 2016.

    The project follows and extends the exposition and analysis of the R-based blog post "Text analysis of Trump’s tweets confirms he writes only the (angrier) Android half" by David Robinson at VarianceExplained.org; see [1].

    The blog post [1] links to several sources that claim that during the election campaign Donald Trump tweeted from his Android phone and his campaign staff tweeted from an iPhone. The blog post [1] examines this hypothesis in a quantitative way (using various R packages.)

    The hypothesis in question is well summarized with the tweet:

    Every non-hyperbolic tweet is from iPhone (his staff).
    Every hyperbolic tweet is from Android (from him). pic.twitter.com/GWr6D8h5ed
    — Todd Vaziri (@tvaziri) August 6, 2016

    This conjecture is fairly well supported by the following mosaic plots, [2]:

    TextAnalysisOfTrumpTweets-iPhone-MosaicPlot-Sentiment-Device TextAnalysisOfTrumpTweets-iPhone-MosaicPlot-Device-Weekday-Sentiment

    We can see the that Twitter messages from iPhone are much more likely to be neutral, and the ones from Android are much more polarized. As Christian Rudder (one of the founders of OkCupid, a dating website) explains in the chapter "Death by a Thousand Mehs" of the book "Dataclysm", [3], having a polarizing image (online persona) is a very good strategy to engage online audience:

    […] And the effect isn’t small — being highly polarizing will in fact get you about 70 percent more messages. That means variance allows you to effectively jump several "leagues" up in the dating pecking order — […]

    (The mosaic plots above were made for the Mathematica-part of this project. Mosaic plots and weekday tags are not used in [1].)

    Concrete steps

    The Mathematica-part of this project does not follow closely the blog post [1]. After the ingestion of the data provided in [1], the Mathematica-part applies alternative algorithms to support and extend the analysis in [1].

    The sections in the R-part notebook correspond to some — not all — of the sections in the Mathematica-part.

    The following list of steps is for the Mathematica-part.

    1. Data ingestion
      • The blog post [1] shows how to do in R the ingestion of Twitter data of Donald Trump messages.

      • That can be done in Mathematica too using the built-in function ServiceConnect, but that is not necessary since [1] provides a link to the ingested data used [1]:
        load(url("http://varianceexplained.org/files/trump_tweets_df.rda&quot;))

      • Which leads to the ingesting of an R data frame in the Mathematica-part using RLink.

    2. Adding tags

      • We have to extract device tags for the messages — each message is associated with one of the tags "Android", "iPad", or "iPhone".

      • Using the message time-stamps each message is associated with time tags corresponding to the creation time month, hour, weekday, etc.

      • Here is summary of the data at this stage:

      "trumpTweetsTbl-Summary"

    3. Time series and time related distributions

      • We can make several types of time series plots for general insight and to support the main conjecture.

      • Here is a Mathematica made plot for the same statistic computed in [1] that shows differences in tweet posting behavior:

      "TimeSeries"

      • Here are distributions plots of tweets per weekday:

      "ViolinPlots"

    4. Classification into sentiments and Facebook topics

      • Using the built-in classifiers of Mathematica each tweet message is associated with a sentiment tag and a Facebook topic tag.

      • In [1] the results of this step are derived in several stages.

      • Here is a mosaic plot for conditional probabilities of devices, topics, and sentiments:

      "Device-Topic-Sentiment-MosaicPlot"

    5. Device-word association rules

      • Using Association rule learning device tags are associated with words in the tweets.

      • In the Mathematica-part these associations rules are not needed for the sentiment analysis (because of the built-in classifiers.)

      • The association rule mining is done mostly to support and extend the text analysis in [1] and, of course, for comparison purposes.

      • Here is an example of derived association rules together with their most important measures:

      "iPhone-Association-Rules"

    In [1] the sentiments are derived from computed device-word associations, so in [1] the order of steps is 1-2-3-5-4. In Mathematica we do not need the steps 3 and 5 in order to get the sentiments in the 4th step.

    Comparison

    Using Mathematica for sentiment analysis is much more direct because of the built-in classifiers.

    The R-based blog post [1] uses heavily the "pipeline" operator %>% which is kind of a recent addition to R (and it is both fashionable and convenient to use it.) In Mathematica the related operators are Postfix (//), Prefix (@), Infix (~~), Composition (@*), and RightComposition (/*).

    Making the time series plots with the R package "ggplot2" requires making special data frames. I am inclined to think that the Mathematica plotting of time series is more direct, but for this task the data wrangling codes in Mathematica and R are fairly comparable.

    Generally speaking, the R package "arules" — used in this project for Associations rule learning — is somewhat awkward to use:

    • it is data frame centric, does not work directly with lists of lists, and

    • requires the use of factors.

    The Apriori implementation in “arules” is much faster than the one in “AprioriAlgorithm.m” — “arules” uses a more efficient algorithm implemented in C.

    References

    [1] David Robinson, "Text analysis of Trump’s tweets confirms he writes only the (angrier) Android half", (2016), VarianceExplained.org.

    [2] Anton Antonov, "Mosaic plots for data visualization", (2014), MathematicaForPrediction at WordPress.

    [3] Christian Rudder, Dataclysm, Crown, 2014. ASIN: B00J1IQUX8 .