A re-examination of text categorization methods

Proceedings of the 22nd Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, SIGIR 1999

Volumn , Issue , 1999, Pages 42-49

  Yang, Yiming ^a   Liu, Xin ^a  

^a Carnegie Mellon University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLASSIFIERS; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; LEAST SQUARES APPROXIMATIONS; NEAREST NEIGHBOR SEARCH; SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINES;

K-NEAREST NEIGHBOR CLASSIFIERS (KNN); LINEAR LEAST SQUARES; NAIVE BAYES; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE TEST; TEXT CATEGORIZATION; TRAINING SETS;

TEXT PROCESSING;

EID: 85024373635     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/312624.312647     Document Type: Conference Paper

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