Text categorization is the process of assigning new documents to predefined document categories on the basis of a classification model(s) induced from a set of pre-categorized training documents. In a typical dichotomous classification scenario, the set of training documents includes both positive and negative examples; that is, each of the two categories is associated with training documents. However, in many real-world text categorization applications, positive and unlabeled documents are readily available, whereas the acquisition of samples of negative documents is extremely expensive or even impossible. In this study, we propose and develop an ensemble approach, referred to as E2, to address the limitations of existing algorithms for learning from positive and unlabeled training documents. Using the spam email filtering as the evaluation application, our empirical evaluation results suggest that the proposed E2 technique exhibits more stable and reliable performance than PNB and PEBL.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:NSYSU/oai:NSYSU:etd-0729105-110206 |
| Date | 29 July 2005 |
| Creators | Chen, Hsueh-Ching |
| Contributors | Te-Min Chang, none, Chih-Ping Wei |
| Publisher | NSYSU |
| Source Sets | NSYSU Electronic Thesis and Dissertation Archive |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | text |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Source | http://etd.lib.nsysu.edu.tw/ETD-db/ETD-search/view_etd?URN=etd-0729105-110206 |
| Rights | withheld, Copyright information available at source archive |
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