An unsupervised hierarchical approach to document categorization
WI '07: Proceedings of the IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Web Intelligence, page 482--486. Washington, DC, USA, IEEE Computer Society, (2007)DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/WI.2007.21
Abstract
We propose a hierarchical approach to document categorization that requires no pre-configuration and maps the semantic document space to a predefined taxonomy. The utilization of search engines to train a hierarchical classifier makes our approach more flexible than existing solutions which rely on (human) labeled data and are bound to a specific domain. We show that the structural information given by the taxonomy allows for a context aware construction of search queries and leads to higher tagging accuracy. We test our approach on different benchmark datasets and evaluate its performance on the single- and multi-tag assignment tasks. The experimental results show that our solution is as accurate as supervised classifiers for web page classification and still performs well when categorizing domain specific documents.
