Also have you looked at the new naive bayes package. It is super fast.
On Jul 2, 2012 8:21 AM, "Ted Dunning" <[email protected]> wrote:

> Did you read the original Naive Bayes paper?
>
> On Mon, Jul 2, 2012 at 12:47 AM, damodar shetyo <[email protected]
> >wrote:
>
> > While using Bayes classier in Mahout we set parameters as follows:
> >
> > Now can someone tell  me what is defaultCat and alpha_i?
> > Why is value of alpha_i set to 1?
> > Do we always set the value of alpha_i to 1?
> >
> > final BayesParameters params = new BayesParameters();
> > params.setGramSize(1);
> > params.set("verbose", "true");
> > params.set("classifierType", "bayes");
> > params.set("defaultCat", "OTHER");
> > params.set("encoding", "UTF-8");
> > params.set("alpha_i", "1.0");
> > params.set("dataSource", "hdfs");
> > params.set("basePath", "/tmp/classificationData/output");
> > --
> > Regards,
> > Damodar Shetyo
> >
>

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