A Lazy Approach for Category Model Construction Using Training Texts

Categories are used to organize information and knowledge in directory system, folder etc. As the amount of information increase and the types of information diversify, it is common to have more categories created. As the number of categories increases, it becomes more difficult to organize, manage and look up information from existing categories. In this paper, categories are annotated with concept features to facilitate the access, retrieval and sharing of information in the categories. We have observed that training texts is crucial in learning the concept of a category and serves as a good measure to help human to construct the category model. Hence, we present a study on training texts selection and evaluate the effectiveness of training texts, as well as its capability to complement human´s knowledge in constructing the category model. Experimental evaluation shows that using training texts approach in category model construction gives promising results in both effectiveness and complement measures