Abstract

The objective of this paper was to propose a classification method of innovative domains on the Internet. The proposed approach helped to estimate whether companies are innovative or not through analyzing their web pages. A Naïve Bayes classification committee was used as the classification system of the domains. The classifiers in the committee were based concurrently on Bernoulli and Multinomial feature distribution models, which were selected depending on the diversity of input data. Moreover, the information retrieval procedures were applied to find such documents in domains that most likely indicate innovativeness. The proposed methods have been verified experimentally. The results have shown that the diversified classification committee combined with the information retrieval approach in the preprocessing phase boosts the classification quality of domains that may represent innovative companies. This approach may be applied to other classification tasks.