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As an alternative to obtaining labeled datasets to retrain classifiers for the new content, in this article we ask the following question: \u201cHow can we effectively use the unlabeled data readily available from academic websites to improve researcher homepage classification?\u201d<\/jats:p>\n          <jats:p>\n            We design novel URL-based features and use them in conjunction with content-based features for representing homepages. Within the co-training framework, these sets of features can be treated as complementary views enabling us to effectively use unlabeled data and obtain remarkable improvements in homepage identification on the current-day academic websites. We also propose a novel technique for \u201clearning a conforming pair of classifiers\u201d that\n            <jats:italic>mimics<\/jats:italic>\n            co-training. Our algorithm seeks to minimize a loss (objective) function quantifying the difference in predictions from the two views afforded by co-training. We argue that this loss formulation provides insights for understanding co-training and can be used even in the absence of a validation dataset.\n          <\/jats:p>\n          <jats:p>Our next set of findings pertains to the evaluation of other state-of-the-art techniques for classifying homepages. First, we apply feature selection (FS) and feature hashing (FH) techniques independently and in conjunction with co-training to academic homepages. FS is a well-known technique for removing redundant and unnecessary features from the data representation, whereas FH is a technique that uses hash functions for efficient encoding of features. We show that FS can be effectively combined with co-training to obtain further improvements in identifying homepages. However, using hashed feature representations, a performance degradation is observed possibly due to feature collisions.<\/jats:p>\n          <jats:p>Finally, we evaluate other semisupervised algorithms for homepage classification. 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