Email classification with co-training

The main problems in text classification are lack of labeled data, as well as the cost of labeling the unlabeled data. We address these problems by exploring co-training - an algorithm that uses unlabeled data along with a few labeled examples to boost the performance of a classifier. We experiment with co-training on the email domain. Our results show that the performance of co-training depends on the learning algorithm it uses. In particular, Support Vector Machines significantly outperforms Naive Bayes on email classification.

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2001
• Where: CASCON
• Authors: Svetlana Kiritchenko, Stan Matwin
• Keywords: CASCON 2001, CASCON 2007, Co-training, Text Classification, Unlabeled Data