When does co-training work in real data?

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 5476 LNAI, Issue , 2009, Pages 596-603

  Ling, Charles X ^a   Du, Jun D ^a   Zhou, Zhi Hua ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

^b NANJING UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CO-TRAINING; DATA SCARCITY; DATA SETS; EMPIRICAL RESULTS; INDEPENDENCE ASSUMPTION; PRACTICAL GUIDELINES; SEMI-SUPERVISED LEARNING; THEORETICAL STUDY;

LABELS; MINING;

SUPERVISED LEARNING;

EID: 67650700143     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-01307-2_58     Document Type: Conference Paper

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