POTW 6/3/07: “A Comparison of Event Models for Naive Bayes Text Classification” by Andrew McCallum and Kamal Nigam
Paper of the week for the week of June 3, 2007 is “A Comparison of event Models for Naive Bayes Text Classification” by Andrew McCallum and Kamal Nigam. This paper promises to shed some light on different ways of using bayesian classifiers. It might be useful to do some background reading on naive Bayes starting here.