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ERIC Number: EJ676551
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2003
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Performance Measurement Framework for Hierarchical Text Classification.
Sun, Aixin; Lim, Ee-Peng; Ng, Wee-Keong
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, v54 n11 p1014-28 Sep 2003
Discusses hierarchical text classification for electronic information retrieval and the measures used to evaluate performance. Proposes new performance measures that consist of category similarity measures and distance-based measures that consider the contributions of misclassified documents, and explains a blocking measure that identifies non-performing classifiers. (Author/LRW)
Available electronically: http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/cgi-bin/jissue/104551672/.
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Descriptive
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Language: English
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