maxent: An R Package for Low-memory Multinomial Logistic Regression with Support for Semi-automated Text Classification

Abstract:

maxent is a package with tools for data classification using multinomial logistic regression, also known as maximum entropy. The focus of this maximum entropy classifier is to minimize memory consumption on very large datasets, particularly sparse document-term matrices represented by the tm text mining package.

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Author

Affiliation

Timothy P. Jurka

 

Published

May 31, 2012

DOI

10.32614/RJ-2012-007

Volume

Pages

4/1

56 - 59

CRAN packages used

nnet, mlogit, maxent, Rcpp, tm, Matrix, slam, SparseM

CRAN Task Views implied by cited packages

Econometrics, NumericalMathematics, HighPerformanceComputing, Multivariate, NaturalLanguageProcessing, SocialSciences, MachineLearning

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    Jurka, "The R Journal: maxent: An R Package for Low-memory Multinomial Logistic Regression with Support for Semi-automated Text Classification", The R Journal, 2012

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    @article{RJ-2012-007,
      author = {Jurka, Timothy P.},
      title = {The R Journal: maxent: An R Package for Low-memory Multinomial Logistic Regression with Support for Semi-automated Text Classification},
      journal = {The R Journal},
      year = {2012},
      note = {https://doi.org/10.32614/RJ-2012-007},
      doi = {10.32614/RJ-2012-007},
      volume = {4},
      issue = {1},
      issn = {2073-4859},
      pages = {56-59}
    }