Uncertainty and term selection in text categorization

International Journal of Uncertainty, Fuzziness and Knowldege-Based Systems

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 115-137

  Peters, Charles M E E ^a   Koster, Cornelis H A ^a  

^a RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Noisy terms; Stiff terms; Term selection; Text categorization; Uncertainty

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; ATOMIC PHYSICS; BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; CONSTRAINT THEORY; FUZZY SETS; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; LAGRANGE MULTIPLIERS; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; SPURIOUS SIGNAL NOISE; TEXT PROCESSING;

NOISY TERMS; STIFF TERMS; TERM SELECTION; TEXT CATEGORIZATION; UNCERTAINTY;

UNCERTAIN SYSTEMS;

EID: 0037330145     PISSN: 02184885     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1142/S0218488503001977     Document Type: Article

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