An empirical study of feature selection for text categorization based on term weightage

Proceedings - IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Web Intelligence, WI 2004

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages 599-602

  How, Bong Chih ^a   Narayanan, K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITI MALAYSIA SARAWAK   (Malaysia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; EDUCATION; INDEXING (OF INFORMATION); PERSONNEL TRAINING; STATISTICS; VECTORS;

BINARY CLASSIFICATION; CATEGORICAL DESCRIPTOR TERM (CTD); FEATURE SELECTION; TEXT CATEGORIZATION;

TEXT PROCESSING;

EID: 15544379867     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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