Combining multiple classifiers using Dempster's rule for text categorization

Applied Artificial Intelligence

Volumn 21, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 211-239

  Bi, Yaxin ^a,b   Bell, David ^b   Wang, Hui ^a   Guo, Gongde ^a,c   Guan, Jiwen ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ULSTER   (United Kingdom)

^b QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY BELFAST   (United Kingdom)

^c FUJIAN NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BENCHMARKING; LEARNING SYSTEMS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NUMERICAL METHODS; SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINES;

COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS; DATA SETS; FOCAL ELEMENT TRIPLET; TEXT CATEGORIZATION;

TEXT PROCESSING;

EID: 33947274593     PISSN: 08839514     EISSN: 10876545     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/08839510601170887     Document Type: Article

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