Automated Learning of Decision Rules for Text Categorization

ACM Transactions on Information Systems (TOIS)

Volumn 12, Issue 3, 1994, Pages 233-251

  Apté, Chidanand ^a   Damerau, Fred ^a   Weiss, Sholom M ^b  

^a IBM T J WATSON RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^b RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLASSIFICATION (OF INFORMATION); DATA ACQUISITION; DATA STORAGE EQUIPMENT; DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS; HUMAN ENGINEERING; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL SYSTEMS; LEARNING SYSTEMS; MAN MACHINE SYSTEMS; PERFORMANCE; SOCIETIES AND INSTITUTIONS; STANDARDS; TERMINOLOGY;

REUTERS COLLECTION; TEXT CATEGORIZATION;

KNOWLEDGE BASED SYSTEMS;

EID: 0028461417     PISSN: 10468188     EISSN: 15582868     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/183422.183423     Document Type: Article

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