Semi-supervised collaborative text classification

Abstract

Most text categorization methods require text content of documents that is often difficult to obtain. We consider "Collaborative Text Categorization", where each document is represented by the feedback from a large number of users. Our study focuses on the semisupervised case in which one key challenge is that a significant number of users have not rated any labeled document. To address this problem, we examine several semi-supervised learning methods and our empirical study shows that collaborative text categorization is more effective than content-based text categorization and the manifold regularization is more effective than other state-of-the-art semi-supervised learning methods. © Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2007.