Tackling the Poor Assumptions of Naive Bayes Text ClassifiersTackling the Poor Assumptions of Naive Bayes Text Classifiers Jason D. M. Rennie jrennie@mit.edu Lawrence Shih kai@mit.edu Jaime Teevan teevan@mit.edu David R. Karger karger@mit.edu Artificial Intelligence Laboratory; Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Cambridge, MA 02139 Abstract Naive Bayes is often used as a baseline in text classification because it is fast and easy to implement. Its sever
