RE: Reducing feature sets with cross-entropy

What do you mean by 'cross-entity reference'?  Could you be more explicit?

Lee
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ken Williams [mailto:[email protected]]
> Sent: 06 July 2001 05:29
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: Reducing feature sets with cross-entropy
> 
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I talked with a couple of people at YAPC about a couple of the
> AI::Categorize algorithms, and one suggestion was to use cross-entropy
> measurements to reduce the number of features (words) considered.  I'm
> hoping that by now (now that I've got time to do some work) the right
> people have subscribed to this list, and can point me either to a good
> reference or discuss the ideas themselves.  True?
> 
> 
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