Web-Scale Classification: Web Classification In The Big Data Era

This paper provides an overview of the workshop Web-Scale Classification: Web Classification in the Big Data Era which was held in New York City, on February 28th as a workshop of the seventh International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining. The goal of the workshop was to discuss and assess recent research focusing on classification and mining in Web-scale category systems. The workshop brought together members of several communities such web mining, machine learning, text classification and social media mining.