Extracting Initial and Reliable Negative Documents to Enhance Classification Performance.

Most existing text classification work assumes that training data are completely labeled. In real life, some information retrieval problems can only be described as learning a binary classifier from a set of incompletely labeled examples, where a small set of labeled positive examples and a very large set of unlabeled ones are provided. In this case, all of the traditional text classification methods can't work properly. In this paper, we propose a method called Weighted Voting Classifier, which is an improved 1-DNF algorithm. Experimental results on the Reuters-21578 set show that our algorithm Weighting Voting Classifier outperforms PEBL and one-class SVM in terms of F measure. Weighting Voting Classifier can achieve high F score when comparing with PEBL and one-class SVM. Furthermore, the reduction of iterations is 2.26 when comparing the method of PEBL with ours. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]