Fwd: [RTextTools Help] Strings as Labels

[Tim Jurka]

Some positive feedback I thought I'd share. Corin's suggestion is on my to-do list.

Tim

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Timothy P. Jurka
Ph.D. Student

Department of Political Science
University of California, Davis
www.timjurka.com

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From: Corin Moss <corin...@infomoss.com>

Subject: [RTextTools Help] Strings as Labels

Date: October 28, 2011 4:30:20 AM PDT

To: rtexttools-help <rtextto...@googlegroups.com>

Reply-To: rtextto...@googlegroups.com

Hi There,

Many thanks for this package - it's a very straight-forward approach
to testing different algorithms, plus the a number of your
implementations seems slightly better than what I've been using up
until now (I'm getting over 80% accuracy on a set for which another
MaxEnt implementation was only giving me 65%!)

I wondered if there are any plans to allow strings values as labels?
For generic classification tasks, this seems to make a lot of sense,
right now all labels need to be converted to numerical values before
being imported, in order to be able to make any sense of the reporting
output.

Regards,

Corin

[Amber Boydstun]

This is really great.  Tim, did you happen to reply to Corin telling him you've added that to the to-do list, or should I drop a note?

Amber

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Assistant Professor

Department of Political Science
University of California, Davis

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[Tim Jurka]

I've already dropped Corin an email. 

Tim

[Amber Boydstun]

Perfect -- thank you!

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Amber E. Boydstun
Assistant Professor
Department of Political Science
University of California, Davis
One Shields Ave
Davis, CA 95616

http://psfaculty.ucdavis.edu/boydstun/
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