Dear Stuti,

Thanks for those answers.

As far as I know Naive Bayes handles pretty well with text classification -
the most common example of Naive Bayes usage is a spam classification.

I think you could also try with SVM (Support Vector Machines) and Boosting.
Time ago I read some papers where the results of these algorithms in text
classification were very good. Unfortunately I haven't had opportunity to
implement such a problem using Mahout, so you have to try it youself or
maybe some Mahout expert could say a word how to do this.

I can only advice that you can check the results of this methods using g.e.
Weka or Rapidminer before implementing that with Mahout.

I hope I help a little bit and I'm sorry that I couldn't help (yet) with
Mahout.

Best wishes,
Jacek Wasilewski.


2013/5/14 Stuti Awasthi <[email protected]>

> Hey Jack,
>
> Thanks for response. Regarding your queries:
>
> 1. Classes in which il categorize will range from 3-4 in numbers. Eg like
> Problem,Solution,Idea etc
> 2. The number of keywords or phrase can vary. It is not fixed in number.
> For now Il take around 100 keyword/phrases but later on this will grow.
>
> Thanks
> Stuti Awasthi
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jacek Wasilewski [mailto:[email protected]]
> Sent: Tuesday, May 14, 2013 5:23 PM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: Which text classification algo is best for the usecase?
>
> Hi,
>
> I'm a new here and maybe I'm not an expert in Mahout, but maybe I'll be
> able to help you somehow.
>
> To understand better your problem I have few questions:
> 1. Can you provide an example of classes that you'd like to learn? How
> many classes are there?
> 2. Do you know the total number of this "keywords/phrases" or is it
> variant?
>
> Best wishes,
> Jacek Wasilewski.
>
>
> 2013/5/14 Stuti Awasthi <[email protected]>
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > I want to perform text classification using Mahout. For now I have
> > tried with Naïve Bayes algorithm but I want your suggestion on which
> > Algo will be better for my usecase.
> >
> > Usecase:
> >
> > I want to classify the text based on custom "keywords/phrases". So can
> > I create vectors of the documents in which features are custom
> > "keyword/phrases".  Basically assume that I have some bag of words and
> > phrases based on them I want the classification.
> >
> > How can we implement such problem in mahout. Is there any already
> > existing algorithm which I can use.
> >
> > Thanks
> > Stuti Awasthi
> >
> >
> >
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