Using Semi-supervised Learning for Question Classification

摘要

This paper tries to use unlabelled in combination with labelled questions for semi-supervised learning to improve the performance of question classification task. We also give two proposals to modify the Tri-training which is a simple but efficient co-training style algorithm to make it more suitable for question data type. In order to avoid bootstrap-sampling the training set to get different sets for training the three classifiers, the first proposal is to use multiple algorithms for classifiers in Tri-training, the second one is to use multiple algorithms for classifiers in combination with multiple views. The modification prevents the error rate at the initial step from being increased and our experiments show promising results.