Title
Constrained domain maximum likelihood estimation for naive Bayes text classification
Abstract
The naive Bayes assumption in text classification has the advantage of greatly simplifying maximum likelihood estimation of unknown class-conditional word occurrence probabilities. However, these estimates are usually modified by application of a heuristic parameter smoothing technique to avoid (over-fitted) null estimates. In this work, we advocate the reduction of the parameter domain instead of parameter smoothing. This leads to a constrained domain maximum likelihood estimation problem for which we provide an iterative algorithm that solves it optimally.
Year
DOI
Venue
2010
10.1007/s10044-009-0149-y
Pattern Analysis & Applications
Keywords
Field
DocType
maximum likelihood estimation � naive bayestext classificationparameter smoothing � karush-kuhn-tucker conditions,karush kuhn tucker,iterative algorithm,maximum likelihood estimate,naive bayes,maximum likelihood estimation,karush kuhn tucker conditions
Heuristic,Likelihood function,Naive Bayes classifier,Pattern recognition,Iterative method,Maximum likelihood,Smoothing,Artificial intelligence,Karush–Kuhn–Tucker conditions,Maximum likelihood sequence estimation,Mathematics
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
13
2
1433-755X
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
4
0.39
4
Authors
2
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Jesús Andrés-Ferrer1737.52
alfons juan257261.45