Naive Bayes modeling with proper smoothing for information extraction

IEEE International Conference on Fuzzy Systems

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 393-400

  Zhenmei, Gu ^a,b   Cercone, Nick ^a,c  

^a IEEE   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

^c DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BAYES MODELING; DATA SPARSENESS PROBLEM; INFORMATION EXTRACTION; PROBABILITY ESTIMATION;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; PROBABILITY; STATISTICAL METHODS;

INFORMATION RETRIEVAL;

EID: 34250790623     PISSN: 10987584     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/FUZZY.2006.1681742     Document Type: Conference Paper

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