The aim of the thesis was to develop a tool for automatic classification of online stores depending on the type of products they offer. Websites are classified into seven predefined categories: antiques and collectibles, cloth- ing, consumer electronics, furniture, home and garden, jewelry and office products. The main problem was getting relevant data to build a learning and test data set and classifying web sites. The following machine learning methods were used: naive Bayesian classifier, k-nearest neighbors algorithm, random forests, neural networks and support vector machine. The most promising result were obtained using the support vector machine classifier.
|