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Python 3 Text Processing with NLTK 3 Cookbook - Second Edition
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Python 3 Text Processing with NLTK 3 Cookbook - Second Edition

by Jacob Perkins
August 2014
Beginner to intermediate content levelBeginner to intermediate
304 pages
7h 10m
English
Packt Publishing
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Classifying with multiple binary classifiers

So far we have focused on binary classifiers, which classify with one of two possible labels. The same techniques for training a binary classifier can also be used to create a multi-class classifier, which is a classifier that can classify with one of the many possible labels. But there are also cases where you need to be able to classify with multiple labels. A classifier that can return more than one label is a multi-label classifier.

A common technique for creating a multi-label classifier is to combine many binary classifiers, one for each label. You train each binary classifier so that it either returns a known label or returns something else to signal that the label does not apply. Then, you ...

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