Patent Document ID: 8589317
Application ID: 12970158

Base Claim:
1. A method of training an automated classifier to identify topical categories of content items of a content set using a device comprising a processor and having access to at least one human classifier, the method comprising: executing on the processor instructions configured to: for respective content items of the content set: using the automated classifier, identify at least one topical category for the content item with a classification confidence; for respective content items having a classification confidence for a selected topical category that is below a classification confidence threshold: send the content item to a human classifier including the selected topical category into which the content item has been classified, and upon receiving from the human classifier at least one user-selected topical category associated with the content item, store the content item in a training set associated with the at least one user-selected topical category; and train the automated classifier using the training set.

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Claim 4:
4. The method of claim 1 : the automated classifier configured to associate respective content items with respective topical categories having a classification degree; and the instructions configured to, upon receiving from at least one human classifier at least one topical category associated with the content item, associate the content item in the training set with at least one topical category having a classification degree calculated proportionally to the at least one human classifier associating the content item with the topical category.