A machine learning approach for Arabic text classification using N-gram frequency statistics

Journal of Informetrics

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 72-77

  Khreisat, Laila ^a  

^a FAIRLEIGH DICKINSON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Arabic; Categorization; Classification; Data mining; Machine learning; N gram

Indexed keywords

EID: 58149462758     PISSN: 17511577     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.joi.2008.11.005     Document Type: Article

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