Machine Learning in Automated Text Categorization

ACM Computing Surveys

Volumn 34, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 1-47

  Sebastiani, Fabrizio ^a  

^a CNR   (Italy)

Author keywords

Machine learning; Text categorization; Text classification

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATIC INDEXING; CLASSIFICATION (OF INFORMATION); COMPUTER SOFTWARE PORTABILITY; COMPUTER SOFTWARE SELECTION AND EVALUATION; COST EFFECTIVENESS; DIGITAL STORAGE; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; KNOWLEDGE ENGINEERING; LEARNING ALGORITHMS; TEXT PROCESSING;

INFORMATION SEARCH; TEXT CHARACTERIZATION (TC);

LEARNING SYSTEMS;

EID: 0002442796     PISSN: 03600300     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/505282.505283     Document Type: Review

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