• Journal of KIISE:Software and Applications
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• v.31 no.8
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• pp.991-998
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• 2004

In many practical teaming problems including bioinformatics area, there is a small amount of labeled data along with a large pool of unlabeled data. Labeled examples are fairly expensive to obtain because they require human efforts. In contrast, unlabeled examples can be inexpensively gathered without an expert. A common method with unlabeled data for data classification and analysis is co-training. This method uses a small set of labeled examples to learn a classifier in two views. Then each classifier is applied to all unlabeled examples, and co-training detects the examples on which each classifier makes the most confident predictions. After some iterations, new classifiers are learned in training data and the number of labeled examples is increased. In this paper, we propose a new co-training strategy using unlabeled data. And we evaluate our method with two classifiers and two experimental data: WebKB and BIND XML data. Our experimentation shows that the proposed co-training technique effectively improves the classification accuracy when the number of labeled examples are very small.