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Does a New Simple Gaussian Weighting Approach Perform Well in Text Categorization?

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Does a New Simple Gaussian Weighting Approach Perform Well in Text Categorization?
A new approach to the Text Categorization problem is here presented. It is called Gaussian Weighting and it is a supervised learning algorithm that, during the training phase, estimates two very simple and easily computable statistics which are: the Presence P, how much a term / is present in a category c\ the Expressiveness E, how much / is present outside c in the rest of the domain. Once the system has learned this information, a Gaussian function is shaped for each term of a category, in order to assign the term a weight that estimates the level of its importance for that particular category. We tested our learning method on the task of single-label classification using the Reuters-21578 benchmark. The outcome of the result was quite impressive: in different experimental setups, we reached a microaveraged Fl-measure of 0.89, with a peak of 0.899. Moreover, a macro-averaged Recall and Precision was calculated: the former reported a 0.72, the latter a 0.79. These results reach most ...
Giorgio Maria Di Nunzio, Alessandro Micarelli
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Type Conference
Year 2003
Where IJCAI
Authors Giorgio Maria Di Nunzio, Alessandro Micarelli
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