Performance of KNN and SVM classifiers on full word Arabic articles

Advanced Engineering Informatics

Volumn 22, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 106-111

  Hmeidi, Ismail ^a   Hawashin, Bilal ^a   El Qawasmeh, Eyas ^a  

^a JORDAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Jordan)

Author keywords

Arabic text categorization; CHI statistics; Full word features; KNN; SVM; tf.idf weighting

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; FEATURE EXTRACTION; LEARNING ALGORITHMS; STATISTICS; SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINES;

ARABIC TEXT CATEGORIZATION; FULL WORD FEATURES; WEIGHTING;

CHARACTER RECOGNITION;

EID: 39449129104     PISSN: 14740346     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.aei.2007.12.001     Document Type: Article

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