Transductive Transfer Learning in Genetic Programming for Document Classification

Abstract

Document classification tasks generally have sparse and high dimensional features. It is important to effectively extract features. In document classification tasks, there are some similarities existing in different categories or different datasets. It is possible that one document classification task does not have labelled training data. In order to obtain effective classifiers on this specific task, this paper proposes a Genetic Programming (GP) system using transductive transfer learning. The proposed GP system automatically extracts features from different source domains, and these GP extracted features are combined to form new classifiers being directly applied to a target domain. From experimental results, the proposed transductive transfer learning GP system can evolve features from source domains to effectively apply to target domains which are similar to the source domains.