Introducing a family of linear measures for feature selection in text categorization

IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering

Volumn 17, Issue 9, 2005, Pages 1223-1232

  Combarro, Elías F ^a   Montañés, Elena ^a   Díaz, Irene ^a   Ranilla, José ^a   Mones, Ricardo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OVIEDO   (Spain)

Author keywords

Feature selection; Filtering measures; Machine learning; Text categorization

Indexed keywords

CLASSIFICATION (OF INFORMATION); LEARNING SYSTEMS; LINEAR SYSTEMS; TEXT PROCESSING;

FEATURE REDUCTION; FILTERING MEASURES; LINEAR MEASURES; TEXT CATEGORIZATION;

FEATURE EXTRACTION;

EID: 33749547796     PISSN: 10414347     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TKDE.2005.149     Document Type: Article

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