SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING INTERACTIVE FEATURE SELECTION FOR TRAINING A DOCUMENT CLASSIFICATION SYSTEM

摘要

A method for facilitating development of a document classification function comprises selecting a feature of a document, the feature being less than an entirety of the document; presenting the feature to a human subject; asking the human subject for a feature relevance value of the feature; and generating a classification function using the feature relevance value. The method may also include the steps of presenting the document to the human subject at the same time as presenting the feature; asking the human subject for document relevance value that measures relevance of the document to a category; and wherein the generating the classification function also uses the document relevance value.