Document classification by machine: theory and practice

  • Authors:
  • Louise Guthrie;Elbert Walker;Joe Guthrie

  • Affiliations:
  • New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, New Mexico;New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, New Mexico;University of Texas at El Paso, El Paso, Texas

  • Venue:
  • COLING '94 Proceedings of the 15th conference on Computational linguistics - Volume 2
  • Year:
  • 1994

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Abstract

In this note, we present results concerning the theory and practice of determining for a given document which of several categories it best fits. We describe a mathematical model of classification schemes and the one scheme which can be proved optimal among all those based on word frequencies. Finally, we report the results of an experiment which illustrates the efficacy of this classification method.