Commenter cites prior work on compression-based classification
3 Sep 22 5:00 AM · 1d ago · 1 comment · 1 source · development 3 of 4
A commentator notes that gzip-based text classification (comparing compressed file sizes across topic domains) was explored by researchers at Waikato University and references the Hutter Prize competition focused on compression.
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Yes: you can classify a test file by topic with gzip as follows: gzip -9 sports.txt testfile.txt gzip -9 politics.txt testfile.txt gzip -9 business.txt testfile.txt (ass. sports.txt politics.txt and business.txt are text docs pertaining from the sports, politics and business domains, respectively, and have equal size)The test file belongs to the…
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