%0 Generic %1 citeulike:1952805 %A Johannes, F. %D 1998 %K categorization, learning, machine, n-gram, text %T A study using n-gram features for text categorization %U http://citeseer.ist.psu.edu/176994.html %X In this paper, we study the effect of using n-grams (sequences of words of length n) for text categorization. We use an efficient algorithm for generating such n-gram features in two benchmark domains, the 20 newsgroups data set and 21,578 REUTERS newswire articles. Our results with the rule learning algorithm RIPPER indicate that, after the removal of stop words, word sequences of length 2 or 3 are most useful. Using longer sequences reduces classification performance. 1 Introduction After...

@misc{citeulike:1952805, abstract = {In this paper, we study the effect of using n-grams (sequences of words of length n) for text categorization. We use an efficient algorithm for generating such n-gram features in two benchmark domains, the 20 newsgroups data set and 21,578 REUTERS newswire articles. Our results with the rule learning algorithm RIPPER indicate that, after the removal of stop words, word sequences of length 2 or 3 are most useful. Using longer sequences reduces classification performance. 1 Introduction After...}, added-at = {2008-06-17T16:01:02.000+0200}, author = {Johannes, F.}, biburl = {https://www.bibsonomy.org/bibtex/25ba0a2a2c2343196a59fe853a7b2675c/pprett}, citeulike-article-id = {1952805}, interhash = {d5cc63317b73ae062a31033fc01f1a8a}, intrahash = {5ba0a2a2c2343196a59fe853a7b2675c}, keywords = {categorization, learning, machine, n-gram, text}, posted-at = {2007-11-21 16:18:49}, priority = {0}, timestamp = {2008-06-17T16:01:43.000+0200}, title = {A study using n-gram features for text categorization}, url = {http://citeseer.ist.psu.edu/176994.html}, year = 1998 }