Building text classifiers using positive and unlabeled examples

Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Data Mining, ICDM

Volumn , Issue , 2003, Pages 179-186

  Liu, Bing ^a   Dai, Yang ^b   Li, Xiaoli ^c   Lee, Wee Sun ^c   Yu, Philip S ^d  

^a 1120 Science and Engineering Offices   (United States)

^b University of Illinois at Chicago   (United States)

^c NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^d IBM T J WATSON RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

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EID: 78149306870     PISSN: 15504786     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
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