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Naive (Bayes) at forty: The independence assumption in information retrieval


Author(s) : David D. Lewis, 
Publisher : N/A
Publication Date : 1998
ISSN : N/A
Abstract : Abstract. The naive Bayes classifier, currently experiencing a renaissance in machine learning, has long been a core technique in information retrieval. We review some of the variations of naive Bayes models used for text retrieval and classification, focusing on the distributional assump-tions made about word occurrences in documents. I,