Experiments on the use of feature selection and negative evidence in automated text categorization

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 1923, Issue , 2000, Pages 59-68

  Galavotti, Luigi ^a   Sebastiani, Fabrizio ^b   Simi, Maria ^c  

^a AUTON SRL   (Italy)

^b ISTI CNR   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLASSIFICATION (OF INFORMATION); DIGITAL LIBRARIES; NEAREST NEIGHBOR SEARCH; TEXT PROCESSING;

AUTOMATED TEXT CATEGORIZATION; NEGATIVE EVIDENCE; REUTERS-21578; SYSTEMATIC EXPERIMENTATION; TEXT CATEGORIZATION; TEXT CLASSIFIERS;

FEATURE EXTRACTION;

EID: 84937392228     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/3-540-45268-0_6     Document Type: Conference Paper

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