TY - JOUR
T1 - Radio galaxy zoo EMU: towards a semantic radio galaxy morphology taxonomy
AU - Bowles, Micah
AU - Tang, Hongming
AU - Vardoulaki, Eleni
AU - Alexander, Emma L.
AU - Luo, Yan
AU - Rudnick, Lawrence
AU - Walmsley, Mike
AU - Porter, Fiona
AU - Scaife, Anna M.~M.
AU - Slijepcevic, Inigo Val
AU - Adams, Elizabeth A.~K.
AU - Drabent, Alexander
AU - Dugdale, Thomas
AU - Gürkan, Gülay
AU - Hopkins, Andrew M.
AU - Jimenez-Andrade, Eric F.
AU - Leahy, Denis A.
AU - Norris, Ray P.
AU - Rahman, Syed Faisal ur
AU - Ouyang, Xichang
AU - Segal, Gary
AU - Shabala, Stanislav S.
AU - Wong, O. Ivy
N1 - © 2023 The Author(s). Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of Royal Astronomical Society. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)
PY - 2023/6/1
Y1 - 2023/6/1
N2 - 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.
AB - 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.
KW - standards
KW - methods: statistical
KW - catalogues
KW - galaxies: statistics
KW - radio continuum: galaxies
KW - Astrophysics - Astrophysics of Galaxies
KW - Astrophysics - Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics
KW - galaxies
KW - statistics-radio continuum
KW - statistical-catalogues-galaxies
KW - standards-methods
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85161518207&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1093/mnras/stad1021
DO - 10.1093/mnras/stad1021
M3 - Article
SN - 0035-8711
VL - 522
SP - 2584
EP - 2600
JO - Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
JF - Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
IS - 2
ER -