Refined experts: Improving classification in large taxonomies

Proceedings - 32nd Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, SIGIR 2009

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 11-18

  Bennett, Paul N ^a   Nguyen, Nam ^b  

^a MICROSOFT RESEARCH   (United States)

^b Department of Computer Science and School of Operations Research and Information Engineering   (United States)

Author keywords

Large scale hierarchy; Text classification

Indexed keywords

BOTTOM-UP MANNER; COMPLEX DECISION; EMPIRICAL STUDIES; ERROR PROPAGATION; EXPERT INFORMATIONS; TEXT CLASSIFICATION; TOPDOWN; TRAINING DATA; WEB PAGE;

INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL SYSTEMS; INFORMATION SERVICES; METAL RECOVERY; REFINING; RESEARCH; TAXONOMIES;

TEXT PROCESSING;

EID: 72449184156     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1571941.1571946     Document Type: Conference Paper

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