Next topic: Text classification (required reading: Chapter 14 of Manning et al's book)

["Subbarao Kambhampati" <rao@asu.edu>]

Our next topic is classification techniques. Classification is an enormous area and entire courses are devoted to it.
We will only spend about 1.5 classes on it and get a birds eye view of the main issues, and look at Naive Bayes Classifier--a techniques that works about as well
as a default strategy in text classification as K-means does as a default strategy for clustering.

The classification techniques are also useful in content-based filtering (which will come up in the discussion of recommender systems to start next week).

The reading for tomorrow is chapter 14 of Manning et al's book

rao