Boosting support vector machines for text classification through parameter-free threshold relaxation

International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2003, Pages 247-254

  Shanahan, James G ^a   Roma, Norbert ^a  

^a Clairvoyance Corporation   (United States)

Author keywords

Support vector machines; Text classification; Thresholding

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; DATABASE SYSTEMS; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; LEARNING SYSTEMS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OPTIMIZATION; PROBLEM SOLVING;

HYPERPLANES; SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINES; TEXT CLASSIFICATION; THRESHOLDING;

CLASSIFICATION (OF INFORMATION);

EID: 18744364452     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/956863.956911     Document Type: Conference Paper

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