Learning Classification with Both Labeled and Unlabeled Data [chapter]

Jean-Noël Vittaut, Massih-Reza Amini, Patrick Gallinari
2002 Lecture Notes in Computer Science  
A key difficulty for applying machine learning classification algorithms for many applications is that they require a lot of handlabeled examples. Labeling large amount of data is a costly process which in many cases is prohibitive. In this paper we show how the use of a small number of labeled data together with a large number of unlabeled data can create high-accuracy classifiers. Our approach does not rely on any parametric assumptions about the data as it is usually the case with generative
more » ... methods widely used in semi-supervised learning. We propose new discriminant algorithms handling both labeled and unlabeled data for training classification models and we analyze their performances on different information access problems ranging from text span classification for text summarization to e-mail spam detection and text classification.
doi:10.1007/3-540-36755-1_39 fatcat:tfbjd3q5onacxfzp6qfhxnqoqi