What makes categories difficult to classify?

• Main Authors: SUN, Aixin, LIM, Ee Peng, LIU, Ying
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2009
• Subjects: Classification performance prediction; Text classification; Databases and Information Systems; Numerical Analysis and Scientific Computing
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/sis_research/488; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/sis_research/article/1487/viewcontent/What_makes_categories_difficult_to_classify_a_stud.pdf
• Institution: Singapore Management University

In this paper, we try to predict which category will be less accurately classified compared with other categories in a classification task that involves multiple categories. The categories with poor predicted performance will be identified before any classifiers are trained and additional steps can...