Simple and Accurate Feature Selection for Hierarchical Categorisation

Proceedings of the 2002 ACM Symposium on Document Engineering

Volumn , Issue , 2002, Pages 111-118

  Wibowo, Wahyu ^a   Williams, Hugh E ^a  

^a RMIT UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Categorisation; Error Reduction; Hierarchical Categorisation; Web Hierarchies

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SYSTEM RECOVERY; HIERARCHICAL SYSTEMS; LEARNING SYSTEMS; PROBABILITY; PROGRAM DOCUMENTATION; WORLD WIDE WEB;

SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINES (SVM);

INFORMATION RETRIEVAL SYSTEMS;

EID: 0141650584     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/585058.585079     Document Type: Conference Paper

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