Meta-classifier approach to reliable text classification(4)

A problem with automatic classifiers is that there is no way to know if a particular classification is just a guess or a certain answer. Reliable classification is the task of predicting whether a certain instance is correctly classified or not, i.e., a cl

Preface

Thisthesiscontainsadescriptionoftheresearchonreliabletextclassi cation

thatIhavebeendoingasmyM.Sc.project.Theresearchhasbeencarriedout

duringaninternshipattheCBSinHeerlenfromMarchtoAugust2005.

Theresearchwouldnothavebeenpossiblewithoutthesupportofthefol-

lowingpersons.IwouldliketothankProf.JaapvandenHerikandProf.Eric

Postmafortheiradviceandsupport.AttheCBSIwouldliketorecognize

mycolleaguesforhelpingmeoutwithmyoccasionalcomputerproblems,and

inparticularIwouldliketothankDr.WimHackingforsupervisingmeand

givingmeaviewonthepracticalsideoftheproblem.FinallyIwouldliketo

acknowledgedr.EvgueniSmirnovforalwaysbeingavailabletoanswerallmy

questions,formanyfruitfuldiscussionsandforbeinghonestatalltimes.

RianneKaptein

August2005

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