Automatic text categorization and its application to text retrieval

IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering

Volumn 11, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 865-879

  Lam, Wai ^a,b   Ruiz, Miguel ^c   Srinivasan, Padmini ^d  

^a IEEE   (Hong Kong)

^b CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^c University of Iowa   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATIC TEXT CATEGORIZATION; INSTANCE BASED LEARNING; QUERY PROCESSING; TEXT RETRIEVAL;

CLASSIFICATION (OF INFORMATION); INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; LEARNING ALGORITHMS; MEDICAL APPLICATIONS; QUERY LANGUAGES;

TEXT PROCESSING;

EID: 0033346015     PISSN: 10414347     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/69.824599     Document Type: Article

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