Table 3B.
Classifier Accuracy
Maximum entropy (100 words/category)72.12
Naı̈ve Bayes (500 words)59.62
Nearest neighbor (5000 words, 50 neighbors)61.54

[i] For each classification algorithm, we fix the optimal parameters based on the data in Table 3A. The classifier is run with optimal parameters on Test 2001; the accuracy is reported in this table.