Using Ontologies to Improve Document Classification with Transductive Support Vector Machines
Roxana Aparicio, Edgar Acuña · International Journal of Data Mining & Knowledge Management Process · 2013
Many applications of automatic document classification require learning accurately with little training data.The semi-supervised classification technique uses labeled and unlabeled data for training.This technique has shown to be effective in some cases; however, the use of unlabeled data is not always beneficial.On the other hand, the emergence of web technologies has originated the collaborative development of ontologies.In this paper, we propose the use of ontologies in order to improve the accuracy and efficiency of the semi-supervised document classification.We used support vector machines, which is one of the most effective algorithms that have been studied for text.Our algorithm enhances the performance of transductive support vector machines through the use of ontologies.We report experimental results applying our algorithm to three different datasets.Our experiments show an increment of accuracy of 4% on average and up to 20%, in comparison with the traditional semi-supervised model.