Yes. Should work to use character n-grams. There are oddities in the stats because the different n-grams are not independent, but Naive Bayes methods are in such a state of sin that it shouldn't hurt any worse.
No... I don't think that there is a capability built in to generate the character n-grams. Should be relatively trivial to build. On Wed, Oct 9, 2013 at 3:18 AM, Dean Jones <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello folks, > > I see that it's possible to use mahout to train a naive bayes > classifier using n-grams as features (or I guess, strictly speaking, > mahout can be used to generate sequence files containing n-grams; I > suspect the naive bayes trainer is indifferent to the form of features > it trains on). Is there any facility to generate character n-grams > instead of word n-grams? > > Thanks, > > Dean. >
