Email Categorization with Tournament Methods

To perform the task of email categorization, the tournament methods are proposed in this article in which the multi-class categorization process is broken down into a set of binary classification tasks. The methods of elimination tournament and Round Robin tournament are implemented and applied to c...

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Published inLecture notes in computer science pp. 150 - 160
Main Authors Xia, Yunqing, Liu, Wei, Guthrie, Louise
Format Book Chapter Conference Proceeding
LanguageEnglish
Published Berlin, Heidelberg Springer Berlin Heidelberg 2005
Springer
SeriesLecture Notes in Computer Science
Subjects
Applied sciences
Artificial intelligence
Computer science; control theory; systems
Exact sciences and technology
Information systems. Data bases
Memory organisation. Data processing
Software
Speech and sound recognition and synthesis. Linguistics
Information system
Classification
Linguistics
Natural language
Robustness
Electronic mail
Categorization
Tournament
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ISBN9783540260318
3540260315
ISSN0302-9743
1611-3349
DOI10.1007/11428817_14

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Summary:To perform the task of email categorization, the tournament methods are proposed in this article in which the multi-class categorization process is broken down into a set of binary classification tasks. The methods of elimination tournament and Round Robin tournament are implemented and applied to classify emails within 15 folders. Substantial experiments are conducted to compare the effectiveness and robustness of the tournament methods against the n-way classification method. The experimental results prove that the tournament methods outperform the n-way method by 11.7% regarding precision, and the Round Robin performs slightly better than the Elimination tournament on average.
ISBN:9783540260318
3540260315
ISSN:0302-9743
1611-3349
DOI:10.1007/11428817_14