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Scala for Machine Learning

You're reading from   Scala for Machine Learning Leverage Scala and Machine Learning to construct and study systems that can learn from data

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Product type Paperback
Published in Dec 2014
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ISBN-13 9781783558742
Length 624 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Patrick R. Nicolas Patrick R. Nicolas
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Preface 1. Getting Started FREE CHAPTER 2. Hello World! 3. Data Preprocessing 4. Unsupervised Learning 5. Naïve Bayes Classifiers 6. Regression and Regularization 7. Sequential Data Models 8. Kernel Models and Support Vector Machines 9. Artificial Neural Networks 10. Genetic Algorithms 11. Reinforcement Learning 12. Scalable Frameworks A. Basic Concepts Index

Naïve Bayes and text mining

The multinomial Naïve Bayes classifier is particularly suited for text mining. Naïve Bayes is used to classify the following entities:

  • E-mails as legitimate versus spam
  • Business news stories
  • Movie reviews and scoring
  • Technical papers as per field of expertise

This third use case consists of predicting the direction of a stock, Tesla Motors Inc, (ticker symbol: TSLA) give the financial news. The features are the frequency of occurrence of some specific terms related to the stock. It is unclear how fast the investor or trader reacts to the news and influence, if any, of the value of a stock. Therefore, the delayed response time, as depicted in the following chart, should be a feature of the proposed model:

Naïve Bayes and text mining

The feature market response delay would play a role in the training, only if the variance of the observations is significant. The distribution of the frequencies of the delay in the market response to any newsworthy articles regarding TSLA shows that...

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