Text Categorization by Boosting Automatically Extracted Concepts

SIGIR Forum (ACM Special Interest Group on Information Retrieval)

Volumn , Issue SPEC. ISS., 2003, Pages 182-189

  Cai, Lijuan ^a   Hofmann, Thomas ^a  

^a Brown University   (United States)

Author keywords

Boosting; Classification; Concept extraction; Document categorization; Lexical semantics; Machine learning

Indexed keywords

ADA (PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE); AUTOMATION; BENCHMARKING; FEATURE EXTRACTION; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; LINGUISTICS; PROBABILISTIC LOGICS; ROBUSTNESS (CONTROL SYSTEMS); SEMANTICS;

AUTOMATICALLY EXTRACTED CONCEPTS; DOCUMENT CATEGORIZATION; TEXT CATEGORIZATION;

TEXT PROCESSING;

EID: 1542377542     PISSN: 01635840     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/860435.860470     Document Type: Conference Paper

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