Context-sensitive learning methods for text categorization

doi:10.1145/306686.306688

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Context-sensitive learning methods for text categorization

1999-04-01

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Cohen, WW *

Singer, Y

DOI：10.1145/306686.306688

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Two recently implemented machine-learning algorithms, RIPPER and sleeping-experts for phrases, are evaluated on a number of large text categorization problems. These algorithms both construct classifiers that allow the context of a word w to affect how (or even whether) the presence or absence of w will contribute to a classification. However, RIPPER and sleeping-experts differ radically in many other respects: differences include different notions as to what constitutes a context, different ways of combining contexts to construct a classifier, different methods to search for a combination of contexts, and different criteria as to what contexts should be included in such a combination. In spite of these differences, both RIPPER and sleeping-experts perform extremely well across a wide variety of categorization problems, generally outperforming previously applied learning methods. We view this result as a confirmation of the usefulness of classifiers that represent contextual information.

Keywords:

algorithms

experimentation

context-sensitive models

mistake-driven algorithms

on-line learning

rule learning

text categorization

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