NEWPAR: An automatic feature selection and weighting schema for category ranking

Proceedings of the 2006 ACM Symposium on Document Engineering, DocEng 2006

Volumn 2006, Issue , 2006, Pages 128-137

  Ruiz Rico, Fernando ^a   Vicedo, Jose Luis ^a   Rubio Sánchez, María Consuelo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALICANTE   (Spain)

Author keywords

Category ranking; Machine learning; SVM; Text categorization; Text classification

Indexed keywords

CLASSIFICATION (OF INFORMATION); DATA ACQUISITION; DATA REDUCTION; SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINES; TEXT PROCESSING; WORD PROCESSING;

CATEGORY RANKING; TEXT CATEGORIZATION; TEXT CLASSIFICATION; WEIGHTING METHOD;

INFORMATION RETRIEVAL SYSTEMS;

EID: 34247365072     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1166160.1166196     Document Type: Conference Paper

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