Research on text categorization based on a weakly-supervised transfer learning method

Abstract

This paper presents a weakly-supervised transfer learning based text categorization method, which does not need to tag new training documents when facing classification tasks in new area. Instead, we can take use of the already tagged documents in other domains to accomplish the automatic categorization task. By extracting linguistic information such as part-of-speech, semantic, co-occurrence of keywords, we construct a domain-adaptive transfer knowledge base. Relation experiments show that, the presented method improved the performance of text categorization on traditional corpus, and our results were only about 5% lower than the baseline on cross-domain classification tasks. And thus we demonstrate the effectiveness of our method. © 2012 Springer-Verlag.