An analysis of the relative hardness of reuters-21578 subsets

Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology

Volumn 56, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 584-596

  Debole, Franca ^a   Sebastiani, Fabrizio ^a  

^a ISTI CNR   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BENCHMARKING; FUNCTIONS; INFORMATION ANALYSIS; LEARNING SYSTEMS; SET THEORY; VECTORS;

MACROAVERAGING; REUTERS-21578; TERM SELECTION; TEXT CATEGORIZATION (TC);

INFORMATION RETRIEVAL;

EID: 17644390231     PISSN: 15322882     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/asi.20147     Document Type: Article

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