CLASS READINGS: EXTRA PAPERS FOR REVIEW AND PRESENTATIONS

13b. Friday, March 31, 2000
(review and presentation postponed to Thursday, April 6, 2000)
Pruning Decision Trees with Misclassification Costs
Bradford, Kunz, Kohavi, Brunk, and Brodley
6 pages
URL: http://robotics.stanford.edu/~ronnyk/prune.ps.gz
From: http://robotics.Stanford.EDU/~ronnyk/ronnyk-bib.html
Scheduled presenter: Chung-Hang Dai

14b. Wednesday, April 5, 2000
(presentation date postponed to Tuesday, May 2, 2000
 to collocate with CIS726)
Learning to Classify Text from Labeled and Unlabeled Documents
Nigam, McCallum, Thrun, and Mitchell
8 pages
URL: http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~mccallum/papers/emcat-aaai98.ps.gz
From: http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~mccallum/
Scheduled presenter: Yibin Zhan

15b. Monday, April 10, 2000
(presentation date postponed to Tuesday, May 2, 2000
 to collocate with CIS726)
A Comparison of Event Models for Naive Bayes Text Classification
McCallum and Nigam
8 pages
URL: http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~mccallum/papers/multinomial-aaai98w.ps
From: http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~mccallum/
Scheduled presenter: Haipeng Guo

16b. Friday, April 14, 2000
Improving Text Classification by Shrinkage in a Hierarchy of Classes
McCallum, Rosenfeld, Mitchell, and Ng
9 pages
URL: http://www.cs.cmu.edu/afs/cs.cmu.edu/project/theo-20/www/mitchell-pubs/hier-icml98.ps
From: http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~tom/publications.html
Scheduled presenter: Thomas Lin

18b. Wednesday, April 26, 2000
Growing Simpler Decision Trees to Facilitate Knowledge Discovery
Cherkauer and Shavlik
4 pages
URL: ftp://ftp.cs.wisc.edu/machine-learning/shavlik-group/cherkauer.kdd96.ps
From: http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~shavlik/mlrg/publications.html
Scheduled presenter: Philip Lin