Categorical proportional difference: A feature selection method for text categorization

Conferences in Research and Practice in Information Technology Series

Volumn 87, Issue , 2008, Pages 201-208

  Simeon, Mondelle ^a   Hilde, Robert ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF REGINA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Categorical proportional difference; Feature selection; Supervised learning; Text categorization

Indexed keywords

CATEGORICAL PROPORTIONAL DIFFERENCE; DOCUMENT FREQUENCY; F-MEASURE; FEATURE SELECTION METHODS; INFORMATION GAIN; LEARNING TASKS; MEASURES OF PERFORMANCE; MUTUAL INFORMATIONS; NAIVE BAYES TEXT CLASSIFIER; NEWSGROUPS; ODDS RATIOS; OHSUMED; REUTERS-21578; TEXT CATEGORIZATION; TEXT CORPORA; UNIQUE WORD;

FEATURE EXTRACTION; INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY; SUPERVISED LEARNING;

TEXT PROCESSING;

EID: 69849084283     PISSN: 14451336     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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