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[jira] [Updated] (LUCENE-4927) Prevent underflow in NB classifier
likelihood calculation
[ https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LUCENE-4927?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:all-tabpanel ]
Tommaso Teofili updated LUCENE-4927:
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Fix Version/s: 4.7
> Prevent underflow in NB classifier likelihood calculation
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> Key: LUCENE-4927
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LUCENE-4927
> Project: Lucene - Core
> Issue Type: Bug
> Components: modules/classification
> Affects Versions: 4.2
> Reporter: Tommaso Teofili
> Assignee: Tommaso Teofili
> Fix For: 5.0, 4.7
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> Current likelihood calculation multiplies probabilities (whose values are between 0 and 1) thus having longish docs with unfrequent words for some class/category may lead to multiple _double_ multiplications to return 0 even if that's not the correct value (thus assigning such a class 0 probability too).
> Probably using loglikelihood and/or _BigDecimals_ may help.
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