The k-NN classifier(k-NN) is one of the most popular document categorization methods because of its simplicity and relatively good performance. However, it significantly degrades precision when ambiguity arises - there exist more than one candidate category for a document to be assigned. To remedy the drawback, we propose a new method, which incorporates the relationships of object-based thesauri into the document categorization using k-NN. Employing the thesaurus entails structuring categories into taxonomies, since their structure needs to be conformed to that of the thesaurus for capturing relationships between themselves. By referencing relationships in the thesaurus which correspond to the structured categories, k-NN can be drastically improved, removing the ambiguity. In this paper, we first perform the document categorization by using k-NN and then employ the relationships to reduce the ambiguity. Experimental results show that the proposed approach improves the precision of k-NN up to 13.86% without compromising its recall.
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