Massive unstructured geoscience data are buried in geological reports. Geological text classification provides opportunities to leverage this wealth of data for geology and mineralization research. Existing studies of massive geoscience documents/reports have not provided effective classification results for further knowledge discovery and data mining and often lack adequate domain‐specific knowledge. In this paper, we present a novel and unified framework (namely, Dic‐Att‐BiLSTM) that combines domain‐specific knowledge and bidirectional long short‐term memory (BiLSTM) for effective geological text classification. Dic‐Att‐BiLSTM benefits from a matching strategy by incorporating domain‐specific knowledge developed based on geoscience ontology to grasp the linguistic geoscience clues. Furthermore, Dic‐Att‐BiLSTM brings together the capacity of a geoscience dictionary matching approach and an attention mechanism to construct a dictionary attention layer. Finally, the network framework of Dic‐Att‐BiLSTM can utilize domain‐specific knowledge and classify geological text automatically. Experimental verifications are conducted on two constructed data sets, and the results clearly indicate that Dic‐Att‐BiLSTM outperforms other state‐of‐the‐art text classification models. Plain Language Summary Several existing research efforts use technical methods/models to improve the performance of their text classification (TC), but the performance is limited by the nature of the TC categories. In this paper, a dictionary‐guided bidirectional long short‐term memory (BiLSTM) neural network algorithm that incorporates both a geoscience dictionary and a document‐level attention mechanism into BiLSTM for automatic TC from geoscience reports is proposed. We hope that our approach will serve as an alternative method that deserves further study.
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