Automating Survey Coding by Multiclass Text Categorization Techniques

Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology

Volumn 54, Issue 14, 2003, Pages 1269-1277

  Giorgetti, Daniela ^a   Sebastiani, Fabrizio ^b  

^a CNR Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche   (Italy)

^b CNR   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER AIDED ANALYSIS; CUSTOMER SATISFACTION; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; LEARNING SYSTEMS; PROFESSIONAL ASPECTS; SOCIAL SCIENCES;

BAYESIAN CLASSIFICATION; SURVEY CODING; TEXT CATEGORIZATION;

CODES (SYMBOLS);

EID: 0344443768     PISSN: 15322882     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/asi.10335     Document Type: Review

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