An unsupervised hierarchical approach to document categorization

— We propose a hierarchical approach to document categorization that requires no pre-configuration and maps the semantic document space to a predefined taxonomy. The utilization of search engines to train a hierarchical classifier makes our approach more flexible than existing solutions which rely on (human) labeled data and are bound to a specific domain. We show that the structural information given by the taxonomy allows for a context aware construction of search queries and leads to higher tagging accuracy. We test our approach on different benchmark datasets and evaluate its performance on the single- and multi-tag assignment tasks. The experimental results show that our solution is as accurate as supervised classifiers for web page classification and still performs well when categorizing domain specific documents.

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2007
• Where: WEBI
• Authors: Robert Wetzker, Tansu Alpcan, Christian Bauckhage, Winfried Umbrath, Sahin Albayrak
• Keywords: Context Aware Construction, Hierarchical Approach, Internet Technology, Semantic Document Space, WEBI 2007