Stylistic and lexical co-training for webpage block classification

13 Nov 2004

WIDM 04: Lee et al. Co-training Web Block Classification

Co-training (cont’d)

•Use one classifier to help the other

–e.g. pages that the link classifier is confident on should be passed as correct answers to the text-based classifier.

•Assumes that the individual classifiers are not bad to start with

–Otherwise noise level will escalate