An evaluation of statistical approaches to text categorization

Information Retrieval

Volumn 1, Issue 1-2, 1999, Pages 69-90

  Yang, Yiming ^a  

^a Carnegie Mellon University ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Comparative study; Evaluation; Statistical learning algorithms; Text categorization

Indexed keywords

EID: 27144441097     PISSN: 13864564     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/a:1009982220290     Document Type: Article

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