A semantic kernel to classify texts with very few training examples

Informatica (Ljubljana)

Volumn 30, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 163-172

  Basili, Roberte ^a   Cammisa, Marco ^a   Moschitti, Alessandro ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROME TOR VERGATA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Kernel methods; Similarity measures; Support vector machines; WordNet

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATION; DISTRIBUTED COMPUTER SYSTEMS; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL SYSTEMS; KNOWLEDGE BASED SYSTEMS; LEARNING ALGORITHMS; SEMANTICS; WORLD WIDE WEB;

KERNEL METHODS; SIMILARITY MEASURES; SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINES (SVM); WORDNET;

TEXT PROCESSING;

EID: 33746909470     PISSN: 03505596     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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