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Re:Ask HN: Extracting book titles from comments by achompas on Thursday April 27, 2017 @02:34AM (#14209624)
How so? I don't see reference to sampling with replacement or a suggestion to re-use the unsupervised results to further improve the model. Seems like I'm missing something...
Re:Ask HN: Extracting book titles from comments by mfalcon on Thursday April 27, 2017 @12:09PM (#14212588)
You're creating a small classified dataset without manually labeling them, in order to train a supervised learning model.

I'm not an expert, but I think that a boostraping technique doesn't imply continually improvement of the model.

Re:Ask HN: Extracting book titles from comments by achompas on Thursday April 27, 2017 @12:36PM (#14212824)
Ahh, I see. I was confused about whether semi-supervised approaches rely on using predictions on the unlabeled data to improve model performance. Wikipedia seems to suggest this is a key component which isn't mentioned in OP:

> Semi-supervised learning may refer to either transductive learning or inductive learning. The goal of transductive learning is to infer the correct labels for the given unlabeled data.

Agreed on bootstrap, but in the proposed approach you're not artificially expanding your sample size by sampling with replacement.