Exploiting structural information for semi-structured document categorization

  • Authors:
  • Andrej Bratko;Bogdan Filipič

  • Affiliations:
  • Klika, informacijske tehnologije d.o.o., Stegne, Ljubljana, Slovenia and Department of Intelligent Systems, Jozef Stefan Institute, Jamova, Ljubljana, Slovenia;Department of Intelligent Systems, Jozef Stefan Institute, Jamova, Ljubljana, Slovenia

  • Venue:
  • Information Processing and Management: an International Journal
  • Year:
  • 2006

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Abstract

This paper examines several different approaches to exploiting structural information in semi-structured document categorization. The methods under consideration are designed for categorization of documents consisting of a collection of fields, or arbitrary tree-structured documents that can be adequately modeled with such a fiat structure. The approaches range from trivial modifications of text modeling to more elaborate schemes, specifically tailored to structured documents. We combine these methods with three different text classification algorithms and evaluate their performance on four standard datasets containing different types of semi-structured documents. The best results were obtained with stacking, an approach in which predictions based on different structural components are combined by a meta classifier. A further improvement of this method is achieved by including the flat text model in the final prediction.