Radio galaxy zoo EMU: Towards a semantic radio galaxy morphology taxonomy

Micah Bowles; Hongming Tang; Eleni Vardoulaki; Emma L. Alexander; Yan Luo; Lawrence Rudnick; Mike Walmsley; Fiona Porter; Anna M.M. Scaife; Inigo Val Slijepcevic; Elizabeth A.K. Adams; Alexander Drabent; Thomas Dugdale; Gülay Gürkan; Andrew M. Hopkins; Eric F. Jimenez-Andrade; Denis A. Leahy; Ray P. Norris; Syed Faisal ur Rahman; Xichang Ouyang; Gary Segal; Stanislav S. Shabala; O. Ivy Wong

doi:10.1093/mnras/stad1021

Radio galaxy zoo EMU: Towards a semantic radio galaxy morphology taxonomy

Micah Bowles^*
, Hongming Tang
, Eleni Vardoulaki
, Emma L. Alexander
, Yan Luo
, Lawrence Rudnick
, Mike Walmsley
, Fiona Porter
, Anna M.M. Scaife
, Inigo Val Slijepcevic
, Elizabeth A.K. Adams
, Alexander Drabent
, Thomas Dugdale
, Gülay Gürkan
, Andrew M. Hopkins
, Eric F. Jimenez-Andrade
, Denis A. Leahy
, Ray P. Norris
, Syed Faisal ur Rahman
, Xichang Ouyang

Gary Segal, Stanislav S. Shabala, O. Ivy Wong

^*Corresponding author for this work

University of Manchester
Tsinghua University
Karl Schwarzschild Observatory
Sun Yat-Sen University
University of Minnesota Twin Cities
Alan Turing Institute
Netherlands Institute for Radio Astronomy
University of Groningen
CSIRO
University of Hertfordshire
Macquarie University
Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
University of Calgary
Western Sydney University
University of Karachi
University of Queensland
University of Tasmania
University of Western Australia
ARC Centre of Excellence for All-sky Astrophysics

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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.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	2584-2600
Number of pages	17
Journal	Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Volume	522
Issue number	2
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stad1021
Publication status	Published - 1 Jun 2023
Externally published	Yes

Keywords

galaxies
standards-methods
statistical-catalogues-galaxies
statistics-radio continuum

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Bowles, M., Tang, H., Vardoulaki, E., Alexander, E. L., Luo, Y., Rudnick, L., Walmsley, M., Porter, F., Scaife, A. M. M., Slijepcevic, I. V., Adams, E. A. K., Drabent, A., Dugdale, T., Gürkan, G., Hopkins, A. M., Jimenez-Andrade, E. F., Leahy, D. A., Norris, R. P., ur Rahman, S. F., ... Wong, O. I. (2023). Radio galaxy zoo EMU: Towards a semantic radio galaxy morphology taxonomy. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 522(2), 2584-2600. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stad1021

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