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Text Classification using Language-independent Pre-processing

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A number of language-independent text pre-processing techniques, to support multi-class single-label text classification, are described and compared. A simple but effective statistical keyword identification approach is proposed, coupled with a number of phrase identification mechanisms. Experimental results are presented.

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Wang, Y.J., Coenen, F., Leng, P., Sanderson, R. (2007). Text Classification using Language-independent Pre-processing. In: Bramer, M., Coenen, F., Tuson, A. (eds) Research and Development in Intelligent Systems XXIII. SGAI 2006. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-84628-663-6_34

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