Lecture 2: Text Classification

Topics

• What is Classification?
• Evaluation: Accuracy and F1
• Statistical Significance
• Naive Bayes: Model, Estimation, and Problems

Video

Slides: lecture-02-classification.pdf Download lecture-02-classification.pdf

Readings: JM Ch4 Links to an external site.; Berg-Kirkpatrick et al. EMNLP 2012 Links to an external site.

Other Links

• Linear Algebra Overview Links to an external site.;
• Review of Probability Theory Links to an external site.;
• Online Sentiment Analyzer Links to an external site.;
• Sentiment Analysis Survey Links to an external site.;
• Raschka on Naive Bayes Links to an external site.;