Radio galaxy zoo EMU: towards a semantic radio galaxy morphology taxonomy
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Bowles, Micah
Tang, Hongming
Vardoulaki, Eleni
Alexander, Emma L.
Luo, Yan
Rudnick, Lawrence
Walmsley, Mike
Porter, Fiona
Scaife, Anna M.~M.
Slijepcevic, Inigo Val
Adams, Elizabeth A.~K.
Drabent, Alexander
Dugdale, Thomas
Gürkan, Gülay
Hopkins, Andrew M.
Jimenez-Andrade, Eric F.
Leahy, Denis A.
Norris, Ray P.
Rahman, Syed Faisal ur
Ouyang, Xichang
Segal, Gary
Shabala, Stanislav S.
Wong, O. Ivy
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2299/26586
Abstract
We present a novel natural language processing (NLP) approach to deriving plain English descriptors for science cases otherwise restricted by obfuscating technical terminology. We address the limitations of common radio galaxy morphology classifications by applying this approach. We experimentally derive a set of semantic tags for the Radio Galaxy Zoo EMU (Evolutionary Map of the Universe) project and the wider astronomical community. We collect 8486 plain English annotations of radio galaxy morphology, from which we derive a taxonomy of tags. The tags are plain English. The result is an extensible framework, which is more flexible, more easily communicated, and more sensitive to rare feature combinations, which are indescribable using the current framework of radio astronomy classifications.
Publication date
2023-06-01Published in
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical SocietyPublished version
https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stad1021Other links
http://hdl.handle.net/2299/26586Metadata
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