Document Categorization is the task consisting in assigning a document to zero, one or more categories in a predefined taxonomy. Cross-language document categorization describes the specific case in which one is interested in automatically categorize a document in a same taxonomy regardless of the fact that the document is written in one of several languages. For more details on the methods used to perform this task see cross-lingual text mining.
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(2017). Cross-Language Document Categorization. In: Sammut, C., Webb, G.I. (eds) Encyclopedia of Machine Learning and Data Mining. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-7687-1_186
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